Writing in The Guardian, Streeting said the "striking weakness" in Sir Tony's intervention was that the "defining issue of our age is barely confronted at all".
He said: "Inequality - the economic, social and democratic fracture running through modern Britain - is treated as peripheral rather than fundamental.
"But inequality, rather than being incidental to the crises reshaping western democracies, is actually their cause."
Streeting said "resentment grows" when people believe the rules "no longer reward effort fairly" and the centre-left "cannot answer populism merely with managerial competence or technological optimism".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgp4llnn12oIf you are to the right of all of the potential leadership candidates, you are irrelevant to the party. Even Blunkett thinks Blair's wrong:
‘Stuck in his glory days’: Blunkett and others cast doubt on Blair’s advice to Labour party
As a manifesto for winning over the Labour party membership, or indeed for coming out victorious in the Makerfield byelection, where Burnham is largely battling Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, Blunkett suggested he was unconvinced. But more than that, he said, there was a hole in the political analysis. The “only impact I can think of”, said Blunkett of the intervention by Labour’s most successful election-winning leader, would be to provoke a counter-argument.
“We are on the edge of major technological revolution and the last two big ones, which was the 19th century and the 1980s, saw the most enormous number of victims,” said Blunkett. “The lesson from the 80s, where I was leader of Sheffield at the time, where we lost 50,000 jobs in three years, was that a social democratic government would not block modernisation and change but would be on the side of those navigating their way through it. Make it a positive rather than a negative in their lives.
“What was missing from Tony’s essay and his interview was a recognition that government aren’t just there to facilitate the Industrial Revolution, they’re to facilitate people being able to live through it with a degree of dignity and to come out the other end seeing it as a positive gain rather than [being] victims.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/27/blunkett-cast-doubt-on-blair-essay-labourAnd if you're advising getting closer to Trump, you're evil.
Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump
Blair, Catholic convert, needs to pay attention to the Pope, who gave him a handy encyclical on AI just this week.
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