July 21st 1994. Blair elected Labour leader. Benn’s Diary reveals the Starmer template
Few readers of this blog will need reminding that when Keir Starmer was elected Labour leader in 2020 his platform was essentially Corbynism without Corbyn. Five years on not a trace is left.
A template can be found in Tony Blair’s election as Labour leader on 21st July 1994 and Tony Benn’s reaction as recorded in his Diary.
Benn writes of Blair’s speech:
It was really quite radical. He talked of ending quangos and ending hereditary peers, about right and wrong, and I think he drew on part on Caroline (Benn)’s Keir Hardie, which he had reviewed very sympathetically… I don’t know he’s going to do any of these things…but he did give people hope and vision.
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