Kelly Our economy must recover

debts and deteriorating infrastructure. Despite record levels of employment, wage growth remains low, leading to inequality.

To deal with it, the authors of the report called for a radical overhaul of Britain’s economy as far-reaching as Labour’s post-war reforms and the ‘80s Thatcherite revolution.

I am completely unconvinced of a need for Thatcher part II, but was OK with suggested solutions like a higher living wage, an increase in the amount of people covered by collective bargaining, workers to have elected representatives on company boards, work-related benefits for the self employed, reverse the corporation tax cuts, and a radical clampdown on tax avoidance and publicly owned investment banks.

How many of these suggestions, if made just three years ago, would have been classed as ‘hard left’ policies?

It brought me to this thought. Asked what her greatest achievement was, Margaret Thatcher famously replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.”

Taking a break from getting on his moral high horse about Jeremy Corbyn, Blair was last week seen having a friendly chat with farright Italian politician Matteo Salvani whilst lobbying for a pipeline on behalf of Azerbaijan’s human rights-abusing autocracy.

With a pedigree like this, Blair’s constant slagging off of Corbyn is just going to bolster his support.

So much so that Corbyn supporters might now be thinking that Blair’s greatest achievement could well be the present Labour leader and his policies. Former Labour PM Tony Blair