Policy Network

Thought of as Peter Mandelson's think tank, The Policy Network was set up in 2000 by a section of Blair's inner circle and bankrolled by Evelyn de Rothschild.^[1] It includes:

• Andrew Adonis, head of Downing Street's policy unit,
• Roger Liddle, a senior member of the No 10 policy unit who sold access to ministers (and now working for Mandelson in Brussels) [2]
• Adair Turner, the former CBI director who was part of Blair's secretive 'blue sky' think tank,
• Philip Gould, now Lord Gould, the prime minister's pollster who fabricated the results of 'focus groups' to come up with answers acceptable to the creation of 'New Labour.'
• Anthony Giddens, architect of the Blairite Third Way.
• Patrick Diamond director

The Policy Network was set up when Mandelson resigned after the Hinduja affair. A source close to the think tank claimed it "was all part of attempts by Downing Street and friends to 'feather bed' his second fall from grace". The de Rothschilds fund the charity, the Policy Network Foundation which funds the Policy Network.

Mandelson said he would be using the Network's high profile platform to launch an attack on the policies of the anti-globalisation protesters. 'The social movement opposed to globalisation is heading up a whole number of cul de sacs,' he said. 'Nevertheless those of us on the Centre Left need to rise to a higher level of engagement. We cannot reduce important debate about serious matters to an issue of crowd control.' And this has also been a focus of the Foreign Policy Centre and Demos and in the work of John Lloyd.

The Policy Network, recently moved from its Mezzanine office to 11 Tufton Street, home of the Social Market Foundation and where the Adam Smith Institute hold their meetings.

The Policy network also provides the secretariat for the Progressive Governance Network

People

Board

Giuliano Amato - Italian Minister for the Interior

Magdalena Andersson - Political Advisor to the Swedish Government

Dr Ron Asmus - Executive Director of the [[German Marshall Foundation ]] Matt Browne - Director of APCO Worldwide

Charles Clarke - UK Member of Parliament

Patrick Diamond - Director of Policy Network

Lord Anthony Giddens - UK Peer and former Director of the London School of Economics

Patricia Hewitt - UK Secretary of State for Health

Trinidad Jimenez - International Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE)

Juergen Kroenig - Writer and broadcaster

Roger Liddle - Principal Economic Advisor at the Bureau of European Policy Advisors

Will Marshall - President of the Progressive Policy Institute, Washington DC

Jon Mendelsohn - Director of LLM Communications

Alan Milburn - UK Member of Parliament

Alain Minc - Chair of AM Conseil

Mike Moore - former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Wolfgang Nowak - Managing Director of the Alfred Herrhausen Society

Trevor Phillips - Chair of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights

Lord Giles Radice - UK Peer

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen - President of the Party of European Socialists

Olaf Scholz - Member of the Bundestag

Heather Simpson - Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of New Zealand

Dominique Strauss-Kahn - French Member of Parliament

Tibor Szanyi - Hungarian Secretary of State

Helle Thorning-Schmidt - Leader of the Danish Social Democratic Party

Prof Loukas Tsoukalis - President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)

Frank Vandenbroucke - Flemish Government Minister

Michiel van Hulten - Chair of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA)

Dr Patrick Weil - Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research

Notes

On Liddle see also BBC Online and Red Pepper

1. ^ Jonathon Carr-Brown Rothschild bankrolls Mandelson think tank The Sunday Times - Britain, September 22, 2002