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Andrew Sison

Andrew Sison

Director, Sustainable Future Mission at Nesta; economist specializing in energy policy, climate change, and economic growth

Jun 24, 2026

7:13
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?
7:24
I think there's a bit of that it was unfair.
7:26
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.
7:34
Partly because they didn't have to, because it was fine until 2007-8, until Tony Blair left.
7:40
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.
7:59
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.
8:08
So there's a kind of part of the SA economy that we'd written.

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38:49
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