Best UK prime minister of the 21st century?

[Bootes Void]

I'd be a tie between Blair and Cameron. Lean Blair.

[Left Wing]

Gordon Brown by process of elimination, I suppose.

[beesley]

Blair's best moments were in the 20th century, so it's close between him and Brown.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

write-in Nick Clegg.

[Illiniwek]

1. Gordon Brown
2. Tony Blair (21st Century)
3. David Cameron
4. Boris Johnson
5. Theresa May

[Ancestral Republican]

Blair and Johnson are the most consequential. 

[Crumpets]

I think Tony Blair gets a lot of unfair hate, but I also think he was in a position to make the right choice on Iraq in a way that many American soc dems were not, and that cost his brand of third wayism a lot of legitimacy I wish it hadn't.

So

Gordon Brown by process of elimination, I suppose.

[President Johnson]

Tony Blair, he was one of the best prime ministers. Brown is a close second, while all three conservative ones are poor.

[VBM]

Tony Blair, he was one of the best prime ministers. Brown is a close second, while all three conservative ones are poor.

Blair was a warmonger

[thumb21]

1. Gordon Brown


2. Tony Blair
3. Boris Johnson
4. Theresa May

5. David Cameron

[Mr. Smith]

brown.

[Continential]

Brown
Blair
Cameron
Johnson
May

[Pericles]

Gordon Brown was a good Prime Minister, he did pretty well in the circumstances of the GFC. However, he couldn't communicate well with the public, and was unlucky to have the election in 2010. In hindsight a snap election in 2007 was a risk worth taking since he'd probably have won and have then been able to win in 2012 once the economy was recovering. Austerity, certainly to the extent that the Tories went, was never necessary and actually choked the economic recovery, so while he lost the political argument Brown was right that the recovery needed to come before the cuts.

Blair was also a good Prime Minister with domestic policy, but Iraq was a huge mistake.

The best Conservative Prime Minister might actually have been Theresa May. If you assume that Labour would never have supported a Brexit deal, her deal was almost as moderate as possible for a party-line vote. Her overall approach, even if it was tweaked so it could pass, was more sensible than Boris Johnson's, it would have been less economically damaging and more reflective of the actual message sent by the referendum.

David Cameron did not need to call the referendum and did not do everything he could to win it, so that approach was reckless, and he was the most pro-austerity of the three. It remains to be seen whether Boris Johnson will meaningfully reverse austerity, if he does he may be better than May. His Covid response is a big black mark though, the government has been incompetent, dithered when they needed to be decisive, and made the same mistakes repeatedly-this has cost tens of thousands of lives and hurt the economy. We don't know for sure that other PMs would have responded better, May has as an MP been more anti-lockdown, but most likely the response would have been better with someone else actually in the position making the tough choices.

[TDAS04]

Brown, easily.

[YE]

Gordon Brown by process of elimination, I suppose.

[Lechasseur]

Probably Gordon Brown lol