Gerald Holtham

A director, with Patricia Hewitt, of the IPPR, set up to help Neil Kinnock ditch Socialism. In 1998 Mandelson eased Matthew Taylor into Holtham's old IPPR job. (1) Manager of Norwich Union's £106bn 'socially responsible investment' strategy,(2) Holtham took part in the Third Way Nexus debate. He advises: 'accept the inevitability of free market Capitalism and ask whether and how a shrunken state should use its residual powers to ameliorate the worst effects of the system.' Connected to the Brookings Institute and a member of 'Citizens for Europe' with David Marquand.

Notes

1. The Guardian 1 June 2001

2. Norwich Union funded Taylor's IPPR report.