- Labour leadership hopeful Wes Streeting criticised Sir Tony Blair's recent essay for overlooking "inequality" as a fundamental issue in Britain.
- Streeting rejected Sir Tony's calls to cut welfare, scrap the pension triple lock, and abandon net-zero spending, arguing that inequality drives crises in Western democracies.
- He also diverged from Sir Tony on Brexit, advocating for the UK to rejoin the European Union, contrary to the former prime minister's stance on re-entry.
- Streeting challenged Sir Tony's "policy first, politics second" approach, emphasising that policy is not made in a valueless vacuum.
- He warned against "automatic subservience" to America, referencing the Iraq War as an example of "loyalty replacing judgement," in response to Sir Tony's views on US relations.
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