Are you the heir to Blair? Liz Kendall: 'I don’t think so, actually.'

Unless something entirely undetected is happening in the Labour membership, Liz Kendall is not going to be elected party leader in the next few weeks. Today in an interview with the World at One, she said she was ‘definitely’ the underdog in the contest and that though ’I know I’ve got a long way to go’, she would be making the case ‘right towards the end’. Now her aim, it seems, is to advance her arguments about the future of Labour, rather than hoping that she might win.

Those arguments might be characterised as Blairism, but when Kendall was asked if she was the ‘heir to Blair’, she said:

‘I don’t think so, actually, I’ve always looked at the history of the Labour party and how we’ve won our great election victories in 1945, 1964, and 1997 and what struck me about all of those was that our values always remained the same but we really applied them to the world as it is, and to the future, not the world as we wish it would be.’