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    LABOUR ARE STILL LOOKING FOR BLAIR’S HEIR 25 YEARS ON

    May 02, 2022 3 minutes
    Opinion
    Mark Devenport
    Can Keir Starmer repeat Blair’s trick by finding the sweet spot of centreground opinion, which New Labour so skilfully discerned?

    When Tony and Cherie Blair made their way up Downing Street on May 2 1997, glad-handing their jubilant Union flag-waving supporters, you could be forgiven for assuming the new Prime Minister’s only tenuous connection to Northern Ireland was his theme tune. pumped out of every loudspeaker at New Labour rallies after Blair’s spin doctors decided the D:Ream track, written by Derry’s Peter Cunnah, captured the mood for

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