Tony on why we should all do God

This week's New Statesman is guest edited by Alistair Campbell and features a very special columnist by the name of T Blair on why we should do God

He recognised that in office

it was best, in my view, not to shout that too loudly from the rooftops

but

Out of office, seeking to make a contribution to important public and policy debates in a different way, I feel no such restraints. Indeed, as the years of my premiership passed, one fact struck me with increasing force: that failure to understand the power of religion meant failure to understand the modern world.

and according to the former PM

Religious faith and how it develops could be of the same significance to the 21st century as political ideology was to the 20th.