In my experience in politics, there are three groups of people.

There's first of all the reactionaries.

Let me just tell you, sir, and your colleagues,

you sit with our country's flag, you do not represent our country's interests.

That's Tony Blair in a rebuttal against Nigel Farage talking about flags, no less. It could be

this week, but it wasn't. This is the year 2005. This is the year 2005. Yes, that was at the European Parliament.

Twenty years ago, it must be the envy of Kirstama, who's still struggling to find the words

to deal with the reform leader. A shadow of new labour continues to hang over this government.

While Stama tried to snatch a summer break, Blair was having a tete-a-tete with President

Trump on Gaza, just as Blair's former Home Secretary Jack Straw was suggesting that

Stama should decouple from the European Convention on Human Rights, which left just enough

airtime for Farahs to announce

reform's deportation agenda for thousands of irregular migrants. So today on political fix,

we're looking at how Stama gets back on the front foot as Parliament prepares to return from

its summer break. What are the main challenges ahead for the Labour government?

And what does the Prime Minister need to do better?

I'm George Parker and I'm joined in the studio by my FD colleagues, political correspondent Anna Gross.

Hi, George.

The FT's chief political commentator, Robert Strimsley.

Hello, George.

And FT columnist and author of the Daily Newsletter Inside Politics, Stephen Bush. Hi, George. And FT columnist and author of the daily newsletter Inside Politics, Stephen Bush.

Hi, George.

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