THE QUESTION
25 years from now, will historians write that Tony Blair was one of Britain's greatest modernizers or a promising leader who got stuck in a disastrous war?
Posted by Fareed Zakaria on May 14, 2007 9:35 AM
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David Goodhart is founder and editor of Prospect magazine, the London-based current affairs monthly. Before starting Prospect in 1995 he worked for 12 years for the Financial Times, including a spell as correspondent in Germany. He is the author of several books and pamphlets, the latest for the think tank Demos is titled Progressive nationalism: citizenship and the left.
The Anglo-Social Third Way
Perhaps not a great modernizer, but a good one who took advantage of a wide consensus in 1997 that Britain needed -- and could now afford -- to readjust the Thatcher reforms in a social democratic direction. Even the Conservative opposition has now accepted his reforms, which deserve the title of a "model" -- the Anglo-Social model.
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