Most significant positive evidence
Northern Ireland peacebuilding, public-service investment and anti-poverty policy receive substantial credit.
Person
Tony Blair
The assessment covers Joining the Iraq invasion before peaceful options were exhausted, and inadequate preparation for its consequences, make the overall record negative.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
-26.67
Reasoned summary
Northern Ireland peacebuilding, public-service investment and anti-poverty policy receive substantial credit. However, Joining the Iraq invasion before peaceful options were exhausted, and inadequate preparation for its consequences, make the overall record negative.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
Joining the Iraq invasion before peaceful options were exhausted, and inadequate preparation for its consequences, make the overall record negative.
Read the full Tony Blair ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- -35.00
- Rights and dignity
- -30.00
- Nonviolence and harm
- -20.00
- Stewardship of power
- -25.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- -45.00
- Consequential legacy
- -5.00
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Tony Blair (1997–2007)
1997–2007 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile