You do have to love Tony Blair's ability to make it about himself - I'm surprised he hasn't come out to say he too was almost shot this weekend. But Blair did take the opportunity to set out his policy stall shortly after Starmer's electoral victory with his solution of choice: technology! NHS waitlists? AI! Fixing potholes? ChatGPT! As companies like Schneider Electric have pointed out, incentivising innovation in established technologies like energy efficiency could produce muchsought-after economic growth, at a fraction of the price of turning the countryside into a wind farm.

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