Much of the Blair mythology is built around seats won. The problem with that methodology is that it is highly misleading as to the actual popularity of a party. It also can disguise what is going on behind the scenes. If you look at vote share (blue bars), we see that there was a steady decline in the Labour share, starting in 1997 and continuing to 2015. But since in the first 3 of those elections, Labour continued to get a majority in seats, that obfucated the fact it was getting steadily unpopular.

In a First Past the Post system, seat share is rarely an indicator of vote share. FPtP consistently delivers anti-democratic results, giving minority parties a majority of seats.

It also is often down to potluck. Compare the vote share in 2001 (under Blair) and 2017 (under Corbyn). Labour got the exact same vote share in both cases. But in 2001 Blair got a majority of seats. In 2019, Corbyn got the same vote share but a minority of seats.

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