He contrasts the intellectual depth of the New Labour project with the vacuity of Mr Cameron's decontaminated Conservatism.

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By common consent, Mr Brown is the intellectual driving force behind New Labour.

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New Labour prefers to stress that the intellectual architects of Attlee's reforms were John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge, both members of the Liberal Party.

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