Gerald Holtham

The first 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.