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...Conservative Party teeters on the brink of defeat for the first time in 18 years, Prime Minister John Major called a national election for May 1. Deprived of its majority in parliament and assailed on all fronts, from health care to European Union policy, the Conservatives trail the Labour Party by as much as 27 percentage points in the polls. Labour, the party once known for its nationalizing fervor and close union ties, now styles itself as a more progressive version of the Conservative Party. Like Major, Labour leader Tony Blair promises to be tough on crime, inflation and government...
...Conservative Party teeters on the brink of defeat for the first time in 18 years, Prime Minister John Major called a national election for May 1. Deprived of its majority in parliament and assailed on all fronts, from health care to European Union policy, the Conservatives trail the Labour Party by as much as 27 percentage points in the polls. Labour, the party once known for its nationalizing fervor and close union ties, now styles itself as a more progressive version of the Conservative Party. Like Major, Labour leader Tony Blair promises to be tough on crime, inflation and government...
...upon a time, she was a Queen of England--on the TV screen--but now she's a hardworking Member of Parliament. Jackson, who has two Best Actress Oscars, and was a 1972 Emmy winner for Elizabeth R, walked away from movie celebrity in 1992 and won election as Labour's representative for Hampstead and Highgate. During a 27-year acting career, she suffered from extreme stage fright; she told the Guardian last September that "the longer I carried on, the greater the fear became.'' In the House of Commons, however, she is fearless. Proud of her working-class roots...
Each economist sketched ways to put his theoretical findings to practical use. Mirrlees, 60, who has taught in Africa, Pakistan and the U.S., devised an income-tax system that was intended to provide the maximum amount of revenue. And to the surprise of this former adviser to Britain's Labour Party, his own theory led to the conclusion that a progressive tax is not necessarily the best...
This is naturalism bent into ferocious misanthropy. The characters practice traditional English courtesy as if it is a vaguely remembered religious rite observed in the letter but not the spirit. And often they don't bother. Leigh's first TV film, the 1973 Hard Labour, has barely a kind word in its 73 minutes; even the nun to whom the saintly lead character offers charity is snarky and ungrateful...