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...Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labor party, promised to increase public services by raising tax rates on the wealthy and to undo the Conservatives small market-oriented reforms in the National Health service. Major, on the other hand, told voters that Labor's proposed tax increase would inflict further damage on the economy and defended his government's health policies...
More importantly, though, voters were somewhat uncomfortable with Kinnock, who had in the 1980s led a party that advocated more radical left-wing positions--like hefty tax increases, nationalization of industries and unilateral nuclear disarmament--than it did this year...
...from the election holding the balance of power in Parliament and a new lease on life. That outlook is promising. The absence of Oxbridge polish on the campaign's three stars coincides with a blurring of the ideologies that have long divided Britain. The opposition Labour Party of Neil Kinnock, the Welsh laborer's son, has struggled to shed the albatross of radical socialism. Now the ruling Conservatives of Prime Minister John Major, the school dropout, are patching up the social safety nets scorned by Margaret Thatcher's survivalism of the fittest. With much less to choose between...
...form a coalition Cabinet, however, they are prepared to exact a price: political autonomy for Scotland and Wales and a Parliament elected by proportional representation, the latter promising to give Ashdown's faithful greater clout. Since a proportional system would rob the major parties of strength, neither Major nor Kinnock favors it, though Labour has bowed to the idea of autonomy for Wales and restive Scotland. If a hung Parliament emerges, a Labour-Liberal Democrat match is the more likely partnership...
While the summiteers hailed the gathering as a success, some audiences back home were not quite so impressed. In Britain opposition Labor leader Neil Kinnock argued that Major's refusal to commit to either a single currency or social policy "has isolated Britain on the most vital issues." In Germany, where fears mount that a common currency will undermine the country's cherished anti-inflationary stability, the daily Bild Zeitung ran the gloomy headline: "1999 -- THE END OF THE MARK...