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Former British PM Tony Blair warned that American voters would do well to heed the example of his own country's infatuation with populism. | Getty Tony Blair: I support Hillary

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is supporting Hillary Clinton for the presidency and compared the popularity of Bernie Sanders to the current leader of his Labour Party.

“I think Hillary’s a very strong, capable person and I’m a supporter of hers, but who the Americans choose is up to them," Blair said in a joint interview with The Guardian and the Financial Times published Tuesday. "It’s not wise to get into that.”

Blair told the publications that Sanders' main selling points ring familiar to those of Jeremy Corbyn, remarking that both politicians have “the question of electability." In assessing why he felt that to be the case, Blair remarked upon the trans-Atlantic trends of stagnant incomes for lower- to middle-class people, an anger at the party elites, all fueled by the 24/7 beat of social media.

The former prime minister, who surged to 10 Downing Street in 1997 on the wave of his "third way" between left and right, warned that American voters would do well to heed the example of his own country's infatuation with populism.

“It’s up to Democrats who they decide they want to elect but, five months on from the nomination of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour party, you’ve got the published polls" he said. "We [Labour] should be significantly ahead. The last poll I saw, we were quite significantly behind."

The former secretary of state also scored the backing of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who this week said he is pulling for her in the election.