Summary
To address the problems of our time, the traditional social-democratic commitment to social justice and collective action must "fuse" with the traditional liberal commitment to individual liberty and the market economy. Self-evidently, the authors of the famous Liberal Yellow Book of 1928 were liberals, but they put forward a programme of state-led economic reconstruction, far more radical and far closer to the social democracy of the postwar period than was the cloudy socialism of their Labour contemporaries.
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Lib-Lab Rides Again
What used to be called "Lib-Labism" has been a central theme of Gordon Brown's prime ministership. Well before he crossed the threshold of No 10 he hoped to reconstruct the tacit progressive alliance that helped to deliver the crushing Labour majorities of 1997 and 2001. That explains his overtures to leading Liberal Democrats when he inherited the purple; it was also a factor in his early emphasis on constitutional reform and what he called the "British tradition of liberty". In an intriguing interview with the New Statesman last month, David Miliband the most thoughtful member of the cabin...
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