
Andrew Sison
Director, Sustainable Future Mission at Nesta; economist specializing in energy policy, climate change, and economic growth
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Jun 24, 2026
What Tony Blair Gets Wrong About Energy (And the Economy)
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Is it that Blair has moved in his positions, or is it that it was unfair to say that your initial kind of summary of what we should be focusing on was Blair Wright?

Andrew SisonGUEST
Ultimately, if you want to make an economic critique of New Labour, it's that they basically didn't really worry too much about the underlying structure of the economy.

Andrew SisonGUEST
Partly because they didn't have to, because it was fine until 2007-8, until Tony Blair left.

Andrew SisonGUEST
But partly because they didn't really, although they did some good things like the regional development agencies, and kind of looking at various, there was the kind of five pillars of productivity, they never really got to grips with the divergence between London and South East and the rest of the UK economy.

Andrew SisonGUEST
They never really got under the skin of the finance industry being so kind of dominant at that time that then obviously when there were problems there, it kicked off.
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