His debt wasn't out of control until relatively close to the financial failure, first two terms were not bad at all, and our GDP was record numbers of consecutive growth periods. There were of course mistakes, the gamble on sale of gold reserves and the method of funding NHS investment. But by and large they made a decent success of the economy, unlike the shower of crap the tories have done before Blair and since. I would absolutely take a Blair government to get us through this crisis over a Johnson one, without even a seconds consideration.