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Boris Johnson’s Blairism is bamboozling Labour

31 January 2020

6:07 AM

31 January 2020

6:07 AM

Is Boris Johnson the Blairite who may not speak his name?

All the PM’s talk of levelling up rather than levelling down? That is pure, plagiarised Blairism.

Fixing public services – like chaotic Northern Rail – with a focus on what works, rather than an ideological attachment to private sector or public sector ownership?

That would be Blairism mirrored – inverted in the sense that Blair’s mission with Labour supporters was to make the case for the private sector, whereas Johnson needs to remove the stigma of public ownership for Tories.

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