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Ideologies / Third-Way Labourite / Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown — ink portrait
§ The minds · b. 1951 · United Kingdom · Prime Minister & Chancellor

Gordon Brown

Prudence for a purpose

New Labour's economic engine.

Heterodox Third-Way Labourite →
Economic−2
SocialistMarket
Governance+26
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+30
TraditionalProgressive
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The chancellor and PM who supplied New Labour's economic brain — fusing market credibility with stealthy redistribution through tax credits and social investment.

social

Progressive on child poverty and global development.

economic

Market stability plus tax credits and social investment for the poor.

governance

Activist Treasury steering a reforming state.

Notable for
  • Bank of England independence
  • Tax credits and child-poverty targets
  • 2008 crisis leadership
social-investmentprudencenew-labour
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Tony Blair
Tony Blair
98% affinity
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Wim Kok
98% affinity
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Gerhard Schröder
97% affinity
Josiah Bartlet's centrists (archetype)
Josiah Bartlet's centrists (archetype)
97% affinity
Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens
97% affinity
Matteo Renzi
Matteo Renzi
96% affinity
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