United Kingdom · 1997–2007
Tony Blair
Third Way Labour. Markets and a minimum wage, social liberalism, and the Iraq war.
Tony Blair is on the world-leaders chart for United Kingdom, 1997–2007. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: Third Way Labour. Markets and a minimum wage, social liberalism, and the Iraq war.
The dot is economics +14 and authority +4, on a scale from −100 to +100. That is near the middle on economics. The other axis sits near the middle. Left means a larger public role. Up means more authority. Neither direction is treated as the correct one.
A second note separates what was said in public from what the government then did. Said: Labour that would not tax and spend like the 1970s, plus a moral foreign policy. Done: A minimum wage and more NHS money, and the Iraq war on a case that did not hold. The gap, when there is one, is part of the placement. A promise that was kept and a promise that was dropped are not given the same weight.
The nearest other figures on these two numbers are Angela Merkel (Germany, +18 / +4) and Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Ukraine, +8 / +18). Nearest means nearest on the chart, not alike in character.
Two governments can share a number and share nothing else. The source is the public governing record, not a news write-up and not a campaign advertisement.