A friend of Coffee House passes on an email from Progress which announces a series of seminars “which will ask whether progressives need to revisit their conception of the role of the state in the light of the political challenge presented by David Cameron’s espousal of a post-bureaucratic state.”
It is interesting enough that a Labour group is now holding seminars on the Tory’s ideas. But who is speaking at these meetings is absolutely fascinating, it reads like a who’s who of Blairism.
John Hutton, Hazel Blears, James Purnell and Tessa Jowell—the remaining Blairite cabinet ministers—are each introducing a session. Others involved include Alan Milburn, Tony Giddens and Matthew Taylor. One wonders whether they’ll end up agreeing that Cameron, not Gordon, really is Tony’s true heir.
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