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Originally Posted by parmnion

I thought blair had a tighter grip on the media.

You mean the man who stole the clothes off John Major and the man who kept vast swathes of Margaret Thatcher’s neoliberal ideologies and stole the full backing of The Sun?

He didn’t undo Thatcher’s employment reforms or stop the deregulation of the financial sector which inevitably permitted banks to move towards sub-prime mortgages. Everything Thatcher had privatized remained privatized.
House prices carried on growing towards unaffordable levels whilst council house buildings remained remained at an all time low. Blair didn't curb the power of the free market beyond that of the state, He encouraged it just like the Tories before him.

Tony Blair was more right wing than John Major before him and that's why Right wing papers abandoned the Conservatives and allowed Blair a tight grip on the media.