“We’re on our way up” – What Blair told Ed Miliband last night
Mark Ferguson
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At Labour’s big fundraiser last night, Tony Blair told guests:
“There is a rulebook in politics that goes something like this: Labour governs. Labour loses. Tories take over. Labour goes crazy. Tories carry on governing.
Time to re-write that script.
Actually it is being re-written by them and by us. They’re on their way down. We’re on our way up.”
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