Tony Blair's legacy

A few months away from his departure from the head of government, Tony Blair is presiding, for one last time, over the annual Labour Party conference that opened in Manchester on September 24th. The editorialist Marcello Sorgi looks back on the career of the Prime Minister and pleads for him not to be forgotten, remaining a model for the Italian left. "A strange silence accompanied the slow stage exit of the most charismatic leader in the history of the party. A long farewell that began in Manchester... Blair had been in Europe and not just in Italy, for all of the left-wing, traditionalist or reformist, an irrefutable and unprecedented example... . In Great Britain, Blair will leave behind a country cleaned-up. Thus, the success of a policy, the renewed socialism of New Labour will survive its leader and make a dignified entrance into the history of the left across the world.

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