There are embarrassments for Blair in this, because there will be extensions for certain sports including motor racing. Ecclestone, a racing capitalist, gave New Labour 1 million pounds.
But hypocrisy is hypocrisy, and cannot be eliminated from politics, only made bare. What do we expect?
The good news is that this is further progress for what Marx called "social production controlled by social foresight".
Perhaps I will quote the wider passage from his inaugural address to the First International 1964.
A word of caution: in this context "middle class" means the capitalist class, not, as today, the educated layer of the working class who are "class conscious" in the negative sense of the term.
"The struggle about the legal restriction of the hours of labour raged the more fiercely since, apart from frightened avarice, it told indeed upon the great contest between the blind rule of supply and demand laws which form the political economy of the middle class, and social production controlled by social foresight, which from the political economy of the working class. Hence the Ten Hours' Bill was not only a great practical success; it was the victory of the middle class succumbed to the political economy of the working class."
Chris Burford
London