Do the interventions of former Ministers help us to move on?

In the last few days Denis MacShane has called for a lurch to the right to meet the challenge of Cameron’s new Conservatives. Writing in the Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/27/do2701.xml
MacShane attacked the idea of raising taxes to fund our collective social obligations and instead argued 'the individual human being should be at the centre of our concerns'.

There is only one intellectual in Labour's cabinet today.