World Leaders Seek Makeover for the 'Third Way'

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and a host of world leaders will on Monday plot the future path of center-left politics in a bid to give the "Third Way" brand of the 1990s a much-needed makeover.

The summit comes as center-left governments battle growing public disillusionment with their achievements that has already ushered in the Right in some countries and is forcing Third Way leaders still in power to rethink their strategy aimed at marrying the best of capitalism and socialism.

It also brings together leaders from Western and Eastern Europe and Latin America who clashed over the Iraq war, at a time when politicians and the public are questioning the case made by Britain and America for attacking Baghdad.

Blair, who led his Labour Party to victory in 1997 on the back of the Third Way brand, is himself struggling to secure a route to an historic third term but is aware his cherished political project is in need of fresh momentum.

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the only one in trouble? Doncha think that is going to make for fascinating politics?