page_title: Blairism
section_title: Blairites
hierarchical_section_title: Blairism / Blairites
caption_attribution_description: DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 27JAN07 -Peter Mandelson, Commissioner, Trade, European Commission, Brussels Moderated by John K. Defterios, Group Vice-President, Content and Anchor, United Kingdom, FBC Media, United Kingdom captured during the session 'Frozen Trade Talks and the Need for Progress' at the Annual Meeting 2007 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 27, 2007. Copyright by World Economic Forum swiss-image.ch/Photo by Annette Boutellier
context_page_description: In British politics, Blairism is the political ideology of the former leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister Tony Blair and those that follow him. It entered the New Penguin English Dictionary in 2000. Proponents of Blairism are referred to as Blairites.
context_section_description: Other than Blair himself, the following prominent Labour politicians are often considered Blairites, but may not identify themselves as such:
  Andrew Adonis – former Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Economic Delivery and former Transport Secretary
  Valerie Amos – Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, British High Commissioner to Australia and the first black woman to serve in the Cabinet
  Hilary Armstrong – former Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chief Whip
  Hazel Blears – former Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
  David Blunkett – former Home Secretary
  Stephen Byers – former Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and former MP
  Ben Bradshaw – former Culture Secretary
  Liam Byrne – former shadow Work and Pensions Secretary.
  Charles Clarke – former Home Secretary and former MP who lost his seat at the 2010 general election
  Charles Falconer – former Lord Chancellor
  Caroline Flint – former Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
  Tom Harris – former MP
  Patricia Hewitt – former Secretary of State for Health and former MP
  Margaret Hodge – former chair of the Public Accounts Committee
  Geoff Hoon – former Secretary of State for Defence
  Tristram Hunt – former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central
  John Hutton – former Secretary of State for Defence, MP and head of a commission into public sector pensions for the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition
  Tessa Jowell – former Culture Secretary
  Alan Johnson – former Home Secretary
  Sally Keeble – former MP for Northampton North
  Ruth Kelly – former Cabinet minister and economist
  Liz Kendall – MP for Leicester West and 2015 Labour Party leadership candidate
  Oona King – Former MP for Bethnal Green and Bow who lost her seat to George Galloway and the defeated candidate to be Labour's candidate for the Mayoralty of London
  Peter Mandelson –former First Secretary of State and spin doctor
  Alan Milburn – Former Secretary of State for Health, MP and Social Mobility Tsar under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.
  David Miliband – Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and defeated 2010 Labour Party leadership candidate
  Estelle Morris – former Secretary of State for Education and currently a peer
  Sally Morgan – former director of Government Relations, Minister for Women and chair of Ofsted
  Jim Murphy – Former Secretary of State for Scotland and Leader of the Scottish Labour Party 2014-15.
  James Purnell – former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and chairman of the IPPR
  John Reid – former Home Secretary
  Jacqui Smith – former Home Secretary and candidate to be BBC vice chairman
caption: Lord Mandelson
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