Lessons in a landslide: Tony Blair

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Lessons in a landslide: 20 years after New LabourA Red Box podcast series of interviews with all of the key players in the 1997 campaign, and their fears for the future of the party.Tony Blair reflects on his paranoia that he might blow it in 1997, his unsolvable conflict with Gordon Brown and his sadness at Blairite now being a dirty word in the party in led to three election victories.

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0:00.0	Just imagine what your best Christmas ever would sound like.
0:03.4	Thank you for calling National Lottery. I can see you calling about a winner today, is that correct?
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0:28.3	18 or over. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast in The Times, I'm Matt Surely.
0:41.6	A looming general election, a party on the verge of a historic landslide, a leader with an iron-like
0:46.7	grip on message discipline, waging war on complacency.
0:50.4	Sound familiar?
0:51.2	I'm you. sound familiar. A new dawn is broken as
0:56.0	I don't as...
1:00.0	Education, education and education.
1:05.0	Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.
1:09.0	A politics for courage and honesty and trust.
1:14.0	Welcome to Lessons in a Landslide,
1:20.0	an exclusive Red Box podcast series
1:22.0	to mark 20 years since New Labour swept to power with 418 MPs.
1:27.0	Recorded before Theresa May triggered her snap election.
1:31.0	I was meant to all of the key players in the 1997 campaign about life
1:34.7	on the political front line and those infamous behind the scenes battles including
1:39.0	Peter Mandelson, Alistair Campbell and Angie Hunter. But we begin with the man at the center of it all, Tony Blair. The
1:45.4	New Labor Front man reflects on his paranoia that he might blow it all. His insolvable
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