10. Tony Blair (Part 3): Reforms and Legacy

Tony Blair served as Labour leader from 1994 to 2007, and Prime Minister from 1997 to 2010.

This episode explores the reforms of the Blair era: the Good Friday Agreement, Sure Start centres, introducing the minimum wage, a huge amount of extra funding for the NHS and much more.

Explore Blair's reforms, and his overall legacy, with brilliant guests: Sally Morgan, David Blunkett, Michael Barber, John Rentoul, Jon Davis, Alan Johnson, Clare Short, Polly Toynbee, Eunice Goes, Andrew Grice, Patrick Wintour, and Anthony Seldon.

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Edited by Will Barber-Taylor, host of the Debated Podcast.

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Artwork by Izzy Conn.

Music by Rykard From.

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LINKS

Sally Morgan, former Downing Street Director of Government Relations. 

David Blunkett, Education Secretary 1997-2001, and Home Secretary 2001-4, author of The Blunkett Tapes: My Life in the Bear Pit (2006).

https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/blunkett-tapes-book-david-blunkett-9780747589310?sku=GOR001959143&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17415898947&gbraid=0AAAAADZzAIARm_pRiLMB22jWBb4_WFInY&gclid=CjwKCAjwiNXFBhBKEiwAPSaPCXWJsaQlzUDDEOfBFzJ0GGqXDOi_OBTYuwFNRS_vghqiDPAV45imNRoC3V0QAvD_BwEhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/books/futures-of-socialism/7EBE9FB7D4BFD38219BCD751C2F941BB

Michael Barber, Government adviser, and author of Accomplishment: How to Achieve Ambitious and Challenging Things (2021).

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/314538/accomplishment-by-barber-michael/9780141991276 

John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator, Independent, and co-author of Heroes or Villains?: The Blair Government Reconsidered (2019).

https://www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780198862819/heroes-or-villains?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22269009095&gbraid=0AAAAADocATD7QNJ3aYp7iaw3rDpt4vvs1&gclid=CjwKCAjwiNXFBhBKEiwAPSaPCYQN-NQNkvrEQlJbZ8AdHlH1IUeDfXPAHM7slb4LM42szFSU2G2KBRoCesUQAvD_BwE- https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781847251695/Prime-Ministers-Whitehall-1960-74-Davis-1847251692/plp

Jon Davis, Director of the Strand Group at King’s College London and co-author of Heroes or Villains?: The Blair Government Reconsidered (2019).

Alan Johnson, former Home Secretary, Labour MP 1997 - 2017, and author of The Long and Winding Road (2016).

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-long-and-winding-road/alan-johnson/9780552172158https://swiftpress.com/book/harold-wilson/

Clare Short, former Secretary of State for International Development, and author of An Honourable Deception?: New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power (2005).

https://www.waterstones.com/book/an-honourable-deception/clare-short/9780743263931 

Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist, and author of Better or Worse?: Has Labour Delivered? (2005).

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780747579823/Better-Worse-Labour-Delivered-Toynbee-0747579822/plp 

Eunice Goes, Professor of Politics, Richmond American University London.

Andrew Grice, former Independent Political Editor.

Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic Editor, Guardian.

Anthony Seldon, historian, and author of Blair (2003). 

https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/blair-book-anthony-seldon-9780743232128