Labour leader Bos leaves 'the third way'

odern capitalism is disrupting society and undermining human values, Labour party leader Wouter Bos said in a major speech in Amsterdam on Monday night.

Bos used the annual Den Uyl speech, named after the former Labour prime minister Joop den Uyl, to discuss the effects of globalisation, neo-liberalism and capitalism which, he said, had not 'led the west into widescale poverty'.

Bos used the speech to say farewell to the Third Way, the left-wing Liberal movement which social democratic parties embraced in the 1990s. Bos, the paper said, admitted he was a child of the Third Way and said it had 'corrected high expectations from the state'.

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