New Labour’s lessons for the new Prime Minister
Blairite methods derailed Keir Starmer, but the right ones could help Andy Burnham
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Phil Tinline
Phil Tinline is the author of The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares and Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax That Duped America and Its Sinister Legacy, which will be out in paperback on 7 May
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