A former New Labour minister tackles the question of our times with rigour and verve – but blindspots remain A former New Labour minister tackles the question of our times with rigour and verve – but blindspots remain A t first glance, the former New Labour minister Liam Byrne is not the ideal person to explain the rise of rightwing populism in Britain and beyond, and how it might be stopped. At the end of Gordon Brown’s government in 2010, Byrne infamously wrote a one-line letter to whoever