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◆ THE IDEOLOGY ATLAS
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Tony Blair

Historical and international

Photo: Pavel Golovkin, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Position estimated from: UK premiership 1997-2007: Third Way, Iraq war, minimum wage, devolution, ID card plans.

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Political compass placement

Map dimensionScore (0–100)PositionReading
Economic
Collective / planned ↔ Market
61near the center
Social
Progressive ↔ Traditional
33toward progressive
Authority
Libertarian ↔ Authoritarian
37near the center
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
34toward cosmopolitan
Foreign policy
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
90strongly toward intervention
All nine underlying dimensions
DimensionScoreReading
Economic ownership
Collective ownership ↔ Private ownership
65near the center
Civil liberties
Civil liberty ↔ State restrictions
54near the center
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
34toward cosmopolitan
Social and cultural values
Progressive ↔ Traditionalist
30toward progressive
Political governance
Democratic ↔ Autocratic
20toward democratic
Equality and hierarchy
Egalitarian ↔ Hierarchical
51near the center
Economic management
Free market ↔ State planning
46near the center
Military intervention
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
90strongly toward intervention
Religion and government
Secular state ↔ Religious authority
40near the center

These positions are estimates on the Atlas’s nine-dimension scale, produced by running the available evidence through the same questions and scoring used for test-takers. They are interpretations for comparison, not objective measurements. How scores are made.

Key positions

StatementPositionBasis
Opposition parties should be free to compete in elections.Strongly agreesestimated
Military intervention abroad can be justified to stop mass atrocities.Strongly agreesfrom their record
A national religious authority should have the power to veto legislation.Strongly disagreesestimated
The means of production should ultimately be owned collectively.Strongly disagreesestimated
Preserving a historic national majority is a legitimate immigration objective.Strongly disagreesestimated
Central economic planning is preferable to decentralized market decisions.Strongly disagreesestimated
Same-sex couples should have the same right to marry as opposite-sex couples.Strongly agreesestimated
People should be free to criticize the government without fear of legal punishment.Agreesestimated
Society works best when established social hierarchies are respected.Disagreesestimated
Differences in social status help maintain an orderly society.Disagreesestimated

Closest ideologies

Third Way86% similar positionRadical Centrism84% similar positionDemocratic Technocracy83% similar positionModerate Liberalism82% similar positionModern Liberalism82% similar position

Similar and contrasting figures

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Sources

Profile last reviewed October 11, 2026.