TIME Person of the Year: People Who Mattered in 2002, Tony Blair






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With his engaging middlebrow charm, deep religious convictions and deceptive shrewdness, Blair has more in common with a certain Texan President than with some of his British colleagues. And Bush could ask for no more steadfast friend in Europe. But Blair's close ties with America could cost him friends at home.

— By Lev Grossman





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