Tony Blair and the battle for Labour’s soul
Politics Weekly UK
The Guardian
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:12.0 | It's possible we're about to have the seventh prime minister in 10 years. |
| 0:15.2 | A serious country can't do that to itself. |
| 0:17.7 | We're all talking about politics when the key thing is to talk about policy. |
| 0:23.3 | Over my political journey, I've become more and more worried about the gap between people and |
| 0:28.3 | politics. It's inevitable that Keir has to go. I think he's lost the support of much of his |
| 0:33.7 | cabinet, lost the support of much of the parliamentary party. And as we saw a fortnight ago, he's certainly lost the support of the country. |
| 0:40.7 | It's beneficial for the person, if there is going to be a new person coming in, |
| 0:44.7 | that there is a contest and a debate about ideas. |
| 0:48.2 | There's a battle going on for the solar Labour Party, |
| 0:51.0 | from leadership jostling within and from without, |
| 0:53.9 | as former Prime Minister Tony Blair |
| 0:56.1 | attacks the vision of the party he used to lead. I'm Peter Walker and this is Politics Weekly |
| 1:02.2 | for The Guardian. And for a special treat this week, I'm joined by Luke Trill, the UK director |
| 1:09.1 | of the polling and focus grouping organisation, |
| 1:11.7 | more in common. Hello, Luke. Nice to see you. Great to be with you. It's a nice quiet time, |
| 1:15.7 | even though it's a recess. I know, and it never seems to stop at the moment, does it? It was funny. |
| 1:20.9 | I remember the focus groups in the run-up to the last general election, people just saying, |
| 1:25.4 | we're so looking forward to it all calming down |
| 1:27.7 | afterwards. And I now really feel for those poor people, as I do for people like us who have |
| 1:32.7 | to live this every day. Yes, when Kirstama said he'd make politics boring, he didn't do it. |
| 1:37.6 | There's been other criticisms of Kirstama this week. I'm assuming you read all 5,700 words |
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