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LONDON: Evidence that just about everyone is jumping on the Tony Blair bandwagon as Thursday's elections near: The Financial Times, long a Conservative Party supporter, has given a reluctant endorsement to the Labour Party candidate. Bashing Prime Minister John Major for his lack of coherent policies toward the European Union, the paper said Blair was "the obvious answer" to produce a "constructive engagement" with Europe. The endorsement was particularly galling to Major, since both candidates take essentially the same position on the EU. The difference is mainly in mood: While Blair sounds notes of hope and confidence, Major...
More significant, Blair has proved self-assured enough to say no when necessary. New Labour wouldn't be new if he hadn't, and wouldn't be on the verge of victory otherwise...
...that fiscal constraints everywhere mean that even the most creative politicians can be little more than good managers. Still, choices must be made, and to win, Blair has glossed over some of the divisions in his own party. Gordon Brown and Labour's deputy leader, John Prescott, for example, hold opposite views on the need for continued privatization. And as the gap in income inequality grows in Britain, the debate over mitigating the disparities will surely become heated...
...that may be the best hope Britain has. For unlike Clinton, who famously seeks love and approval and alters his stance to get them, Blair's own ideological history is consistent. He has said more than once that "even if we could win as old Labour, we shouldn...
...years ago, well before the current campaign began, Blair visited a small town in northeastern England and spoke with a group of parents out of camera range. A mother asked whether a Labour government would fund a badly needed special-education teacher at her son's school. The easy answer--the Clinton answer--would have been yes. Blair looked the mom in the eye and expressed sympathy. Then he asked her to understand that resources are limited and that not even a Labour government, which will make education its top priority, can do everything. No, he said, he would...