The calls for urgent application of AI and new technology to the new UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer after his recent landslide election victory resonated with messages issued to telcos at recent conferences. In both cases, the cry was to embrace technology change immediately and upend the status quo. Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair has publicly argued that because Starmer had inherited a poor economic hand, drastic measures are required to restore growth and become productive as a nation. Speaking at the Future of Britain conference, organized by The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) for Global Change, a UK-based think-tank, Blair called for “Twenty-first century technological revolution”. Technology and AI in particular should be embraced more actively, at a national strategy…