Tony Blair: The dream, the reality

9th March 2007
By Ross McKibbin

We know what Tony Blair wants to be remembered for: reforms, especially to the public services, which the electorate accepts as effective and legitimate. New Labour had, in fact, few fixed policies when it came to office, but it does have a number of fundamental assumptions which have changed little over time.

The first is that there are certain facts about the modern world it is pointless to resist, of which ‘globalisation’ is the most important. But globali…