Perhaps the single most important domestic question Brown faces concerns where he stands on the balance between the free market and the claims of social policy. Blair’s government moved the Labour Party a long way to the right of its traditional priorities of protecting the underprivileged, and to justify the change he re-named the party “New Labour.”
布朗面临的最重要的国内问题可能是在自由市场和社会政策平衡问题上的立场。布莱尔政府将工党大大地拉向了保护弱势群体的传统重点的右翼，从而为布莱尔给工党重新民名为“新工党”提供改变的理由。