The Blairites are back, and this time they won鈥檛 be silenced.
Opponents within the Labour Party once called them 鈥渮ombies鈥 or the walking dead - people who pined after a lost leader and wanted to turn the clock back to 1997.
But they were wrong. The Blairites are more like monsters in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the sci-fi horror film where wives and husbands turn out secretly to be aliens in disguise.
They鈥檝e been hidden in plain sight all this time. And now they want to reclaim their party - because they鈥檝e seen what happens if they let the left take over (to spell it out, what happens is that Labour suffers a devastating election defeat, as happened in May).
Birmingham MP Liam Byrne (Lab Hodge Hill) is one of those leading the way. He praising 鈥渕y political hero Tony Blair鈥 and warning 鈥渨hen modernisers stop modernising we fail鈥.
He warns that Labour must stop imagining it can win an election by appealing to 鈥渦rban intellectuals鈥 and accept that 鈥測ou can only beat the Tories by winning over Tory voters.鈥
That may not sound like a revelation but it鈥檚 something Ed Miliband barely attempted to do.
It means backing business, and also striving to win support from pensioners, so no more threatening to take away bus passes from the most wealthy.
To make his point, he tells a story about one NHS worker who said she was voting Tory because she feared Ed Miliband鈥檚 apparent hostility to business would damage the economy - taking away the tax revenue that pays for the NHS.
Then there鈥檚 Jim Murphy, the former Shadow Defence Secretary and ex-leader of Scottish Labour.
He said Labour needs an approach which is 鈥減rofoundly and genuinely pro-business鈥 - and which aims to free people to 鈥渢ake more of their own decisions particularly as communities鈥.
And he complained that party leadership candidates in 2010 set out to distance themselves from 鈥渙ne of our most successful Prime Ministers鈥, meaning Mr Blair.
The Blairites have stayed quiet for years.
When Ed Miliband kicked Mr Byrne and Blairite former Education Secretary Stephen Twigg out of the Shadow Cabinet in 2013 - and demoted Mr Murphy to a less senior Shadow Cabinet role - they held their tongues.
They didn鈥檛 want to be blamed for the disaster they feared was going to befall their party.
But that鈥檚 all over. For one thing, the days when the party was riven by the feud between Mr Blair and Gordon Brown, his successor as Prime Minister, are over.
Being a 鈥淏larite鈥 or a 鈥渕oderniser鈥 is now about ideas - not whose side you are on in the destructive battle between two personalities.
Secondly, there鈥檚 a sense that the party needs this sort of talk. Staying silent, it turns out, does more harm than good.
Hence, dealing with one heckler on Twitter who urges him to back left-wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn for the party leadership, Birmingham MP Steve McCabe insists: 鈥淚 want us to have values as well and represent the British public. Not behave like a debating society and chase a series of tinpot causes鈥, and adds: 鈥淚鈥檓 part of 鈥榮ane Labour鈥.鈥
And Ladywood MP Shabana Mahmood has about her childhood as the son of immigrants from Kashmir who ran a Small Heath corner shop.
Her dream was to be a barrister, she said - so she won herself a place at Oxford and did exactly that.
But what did Labour鈥檚 election campaign offer someone like her? It focused narrowly on issues like raising the minimum wage or banning zero-hours contracts, she said, adding: 鈥淚f we want to be the workers party for now, then we have to be the workers party for the 4.5 million self-employed, the business owner, the public sector worker and the low paid. Our policies have to reflect the fact that there are 31 million people employed in this country and most of those jobs are in the private sector.鈥
Ms Mahmood wasn鈥檛 even an MP when Mr Blair quit.
But this isn鈥檛 about the old factional in-fighting. It鈥檚 Blairite in the sense of wanting a pro-business and pro-worker (rather than pro-claimant) Labour Party - and one that鈥檚 willing to consider new ways of delivering public services too.
One snag might appear to be that the Blairite candidate for the Labour leadership has very little chance of winning. This would seem to be Shadow Care Minister Liz Kendall, who is usually portrayed as the 鈥淏lairite鈥 choice by the media.
But in fact, the Blairites have rallied around Yvette Cooper, the Shadow Home Secretary, who is a real contender to win the leadership. And in turn, she鈥檚 listening to what they have to say.
Ms Mahmood is part of her team, and wrote a blog post for the Huffington Post in an official role on behalf of the Cooper campaign.
Liam Byrne helps write her speeches.
And Birmingham Labour councillor Caroline Badley - who does PR for Ms Mahmood but was also campaign manager for Edgbaston MP Gisela Stuart, an avowed Blairite (and Kendall supporter) - is helping organise the Cooper campaign.
The heirs to Blair are reclaiming their party.
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