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Tony Blair can leave his job as Prime Minister with at least one cause for satisfaction: ‘Blairism’ has triumphed on this side of the Channel. And that is all to the good.
It is a triumph not of the content of future French policy (nobody here approves of Blair’s decision on Iraq) but of a new political approach. A younger, more modern style, a calculated, scientific use of the media, which means not just smiling in the studio but creating an event by being there on the spot and meeting the actors involved in the dramas and successes of our time. It means abandoning the post-war ideological ‘markers’ that did so much to delay old Europe’s adjustment to the new world. When Blair was formally received at the French National Assembly, he astounded the right and angered the left by calmly declaring that there is not a right-wing or left-wing economic policy, there is a policy that works and one that fails. As a socialist, he said, I choose the policy that works; then, as a socialist, I can distribute the fruits of success. It is also worth noting that he is more attached to moral values than to doctrine.
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