I always thought Tony Blair had a very good instinct about just how far to the left the UK people were willing to go. The Iraq war was a disaster, not just for the obvious reasons, but because it destroyed his authority to rein in Gordon Brown's worst excesses. If it wasn't for that, he could have sacked Brown and his cronies in the middle of the second term. I think that would all have led to a much happier country than we have today.
New Labour was a good period but it wasn’t great…..unless compared to last 13 years.
New Labour was far too neo liberal, PFIs and commodification of education.