https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Is-there-yet-a-new-New-Labour https://booksandideas.net/Is-there-yet-a-new-New-Labour 2007-11-12T09:08:25Z text/html en Olaf Cramme Politics social democracy Great Britain New Labour <p>Even before Gordon Brown took over as <span class="caps">UK</span> Prime Minister in June this year, one of New Labour's masterminds, the renowned sociologist Anthony Giddens, published his latest book entitled <i>Over to you, Mr Brown</i>. His ambitions are bold. Almost a decade after the publication of his widely debated <i>The Third Way</i>, which provided much of Tony Blair's intellectual underpinning, Giddens attempts anew to set the framework for a renovated ideological position and policy outlook for the centre-left. Its outcome is ambiguous.</p>