# Tony Blair has kicked the Labour Party into action Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-new-statesman-podcast-subscriber-only-edition-1939815/tony-blair-has-kicked-the-labour-party-into-action Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-new-statesman-podcast-subscriber-only-edition-1939815/tony-blair-has-kicked-the-labour-party-into-action.md Podcast: [The New Statesman Podcast, Subscriber Only Edition](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-new-statesman-podcast-subscriber-only-edition-1939815) Published: 2026-05-28T11:55:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.newstatesman.com/podcasts Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/nssubscribers1913/V5_Podcast.mp3?dest-id=814410 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-new-statesman-podcast-subscriber-only-edition-1939815/episodes/tony-blair-has-kicked-the-labour-party-into-action Duration seconds: 2052 ## Resource This week there's only one subject to discuss – and that's Tony Blair – who has written a blistering 5,000 word essay criticising everyone from Keir Starmer to Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband and Wes Streeting. Tom McTague is joined by political editor Ailbhe Rea to discuss this "right wing" intervention. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-new-statesman-podcast-subscriber-only-edition-1939815/episodes/tony-blair-has-kicked-the-labour-party-into-action/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-new-statesman-podcast-subscriber-only-edition-1939815/tony-blair-has-kicked-the-labour-party-into-action.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.