United KingdomTony Blair led the Labour Party from 1994 and was UK prime minister from 1997 to 2007, winning three elections. His government introduced the minimum wage, devolution and the Human Rights Act, joined the 2003 Iraq invasion, and he now chairs the Tony Blair Institute.
In the 12 Axes register, Tony Blair leans hardest on Internationalism – Nationalism: Internationalism 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.
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Where Tony Blair sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Centrist
Created Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly in 1999
Representative Democracy
Passed the Human Rights Act and Freedom of Information Act
Centrist
Pursued identity cards and expanded terrorism laws
Internationalism
Backed EU cooperation and liberal interventionism abroad
Militarist
Joined the 2003 Iraq invasion and Kosovo campaign
Multiculturalist
Promoted multicultural Britain with new anti-discrimination laws
Economic Liberal
Introduced tuition fees; kept market reforms in public services
Markets
Gave the Bank of England independence; Third Way economics
Globalist
Championed free trade and globalization
Spiritual
Practicing Christian; later converted to Catholicism
Progressive
Passed Civil Partnership Act 2004 and equality laws
Technological
His institute promotes AI and digital ID in government
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Planned – Markets
On Planned – Markets, Tony Blair is at Markets 68%. The register median is Planned 68%.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Tony Blair is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.britannica.com
Portrait: Pavel Golovkin, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
