Blair got the chance to reprise his refrain from the 90s, always: we have to cast off things from the past, and become a party of the future. Something he still seems to believe.
This was always a grating euphemism hiding behind a truism. What he meant was: we need to move to the right because that's what people want now, and recent history shows it works.
It seemed/seems like he thought/thinks in terms of historical determinism. History is moving inexorably to the right, to the centre, from the left, and we have to follow or be left behind.
Very much the spirit of that age, that political-economic problems had now been figured out by painful trial and error, and there was a known solution, so we should head there.
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