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British prime minister from 1997 to 2007, Blair took New Labour to the Third Way, with markets, investment in education and tough sentencing, backed the invasion of Iraq and now champions digital ID and AI in government.
Political axes
Tony Blair leans further toward globalism than 90% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where Tony Blair stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, Tony Blair sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Geopolitical doctrine of the alliance between the US, Canada and Europe around NATO and the EU, which backs the alliance's eastward expansion and the use of Western military power to spread liberal democracy and free markets against Russia and China.
1990s renewal of the center-left under Blair, Clinton and Giddens that accepts globalized markets and fiscal discipline, replaces welfare with work activation, is tough on crime and backs liberal interventions.
Militant democracy doctrine, authorizing a democratic state to restrict the enemies of democracy itself by banning anti-system parties, monitoring extremists and maintaining conscription and reinforced security to defend the constitutional order.
The most distant ideology
CommunalismAnarchist38%
A Conservative and Brexit leader, prime minister from 2019 to 2022, Johnson took the UK out of the EU, armed Ukraine, raised taxes and public spending, opened non-EU immigration and fell after Partygate; he is now a Daily Mail columnist.
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The largest constituent country of the United Kingdom, England is governed directly by Westminster with no parliament of its own, with an established Church of England, a public health service (NHS), a financial centre in London, a Brexit majority and a growing populist vote.
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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