New Blair has to march straight out for proportional representation too - far easier to win, preventing minority dictatorship ever again. New Blair needs to get tough on industry too. They complain, with a straight face, that the most burdensome regulations concern environmental pollution. Tony Blair released from the ghosts of Thatcherism could look like a very different leader from the one we have had so far. He always asked to be judged by his second term - and that is what history will do.
Greatness is there for the taking, and yesterday's speech seemed to reach for it.
Fear means every opponent must be placated, every critic appeased, nothing confronted, hard choices avoided. The need to be loved by all has left him loved by too few. New Blair after a second triumph can be whatever he wants to be. And then we shall truly know him for what he is.