Tony Blair came to talk to the students that I teach at King's College London, for the end of the "New Labour Years" course this afternoon. I will write about it at greater length, but the headlines included his support for Keir Starmer's "cool head" approach to Donald Trump's Liberation Day.
"I don't really understand the intellectual argument behind the tariff policy," he said. "I don't think it is in the UK's interest to retaliate." But he admitted that he didn't know where it would end.
He said he had tried to make the case for stronger European defence after the Kosovo war in 1999, because "it became clear to me that we could never have done it without the Americans. I thought, 'This is crazy: what happens if the Americans decide they don't want to be part of it?'
"But it got caught up in a whole lot of Eurosceptic arguments."
And he said: "If Labour had chosen the other Miliband brother I don't think Brexit would have occurred." He thought that 2010 leadership election was a significant moment, and that if David Miliband had won, Labour would have been "competitive" in the 2015 general election.
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