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Streeting criticises Blair for wanting to leave too much power in hands of markets Today we are expected to get Andy Burnham’s considered response to Tony Blair’s critique of Labour published yesterday. Wes Streeting , the former health secretar who, like Burnham, is also pitching to be next Labour leader, published his rebuttal in a Guardian article last night. Here’s an extract. double quotation mark Labour succeeds when it combines dynamism with fairness, wealth creation with wealth distribution, enterprise with solidarity, ambition with security. The centre-left’s task is not simply to speak the language of markets more fluently than the Conservatives. It is to ensure markets serve society rather than dominate it. This challenge is not only domestic. The international order itself is fragmenting. The institutions built after 1945 increasingly struggle to regulate a world defined by multinational technology firms, climate pressures and resurgent authoritarianism. It remains unclear whether democracy or tyranny will define the 21st century … The future belongs to those prepared to harness change in the service of justice. That is the real dividing line in modern politics: between those who believe the future can still be shaped democratically for the common good – and those content to leave it to markets, monopolies and fate. The answers must be new, but they must also be Labour. And here is the full article. …