It was a very modern blessing. Keir Starmer, now fully inducted into the higher mysteries of Blairism, was anointed with the seal of Sir Tony’s approval.
The ceremony was New Labour in style, taking the form of an “In Conversation With” between two men in suits and no ties in a smart London conference centre. It was as if Tony Blair was looking at a younger version of himself in a mirror.
Blair praised his reflection for having done an “amazing job” in bringing the Labour Party from the brink of extinction to the brink of government, and asked soft questions about whether Starmer agreed that technology was important.
