John Major

The Conservative Party will say that is now policy.

You know as well as anybody that From sort of 1997 onward, the term wets that John Major used has always been sort of prevalent.

Is it harmonious? I know what you're going to say, but I have to ask this.

It all seems particularly smooth and harmonious and perfectly in tune with each other right now, the Tory party.

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And she had this conversation with John Major when he was Prime Minister and he said, "Well, I thought I would have the power when I became Prime Minister, but I soon found out I'm not a dictator."

Yeah.

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So you have instead, I suspect, a mix of Burnham, biggest change in 40 years, plus a kind of let's get through this one for lots of reasons, including the fact that Healey is inexperienced in economic policymaking.

The nearest equivalent is is when John Major took over midterm from Margaret Thatcher in 1990.

And he made Norman Lamont his chancellor.

But Lamont had been chief secretary to the Treasury.

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Our politics are parallel to the UK dating back to the 1940s that, you know, just like Churchill lost the Democratic Party last year.

Just like you had sort of technocrat liberals arise in the 1960s in the UK, you had the same sort of Kennedy-Carter alliance here, just as Margaret Thatcher won there, Ronald Reagan won here, just as John Major won there, George Poppy Bush won here, just as Tony Blair rose there, Bill Clinton, Brexit, Trump, etc.

And right now, if they had a vote, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Tories and Labour would all be wiped out in the UK and they'd be replaced by populist left, populist right, liberty-oriented left, or young revolutionary on the left and young on the right, whether it's Restore, Reform, or the Greens.

Similar here.

I mean...

Is he shaping up to be better than, say, Tony Blair, John Major? Because, I mean, John Major for me and Gordon Brown are the only two that have pretty much come out of it, not unscathed, but with some kind of reputation intact where people, they can stand on a podium and people will take them seriously and there won't be an awful lot of backlash.

Tony Blair isn't going to have that, and I liked a lot about Tony Blair, but I accept that Gordon Brown and John Major are the two, certainly within my lifetime, that can pull that off.

Isn't that terrible? Yeah.

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And of course, I remember a very famous speech that, I don't know if it was famous, that Gordon Brown gave in which he listed the achievements of the Blair years in government.

And they were phenomenal.

What Labour actually did, as a progressive government, what that actually did, as opposed to what Thatcher and John Major had done, it was quite phenomenal.

That's fine.

It was because he came in as sort of – you know the John Major spitting image puppet? He's very great.

It was the kind of same feeling with Philip Hammond when he became Chancellor.

Yeah.