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Tony Blair

UK Prime Minister, 1997 to 2007

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Repositioned Labour as “New Labour,” helped broker the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland and joined the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Tony Blair sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly free market and slightly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly interventionist on interventionism, strongly strength-first on war and peace and leaning institutional on institutions.

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Where Tony Blair sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Tony Blair

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Political views closest to Tony Blair

Third Way centrismCombines market economics with moderate social policy and pragmatic problem solving.96%Humanitarian interventionismHolds that outside powers may use force to stop genocide and mass atrocities, even…95%Liberal internationalismBacks a rules-based world order of alliances, trade and institutions to keep the peace.94%Liberal conservatismCombines free markets and limited government with respect for institutions, tradition…90%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Pavel Golovkin, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.