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...With up to 2.9 million New Zealanders about to vote in the Nov. 8 national election, Clark's Labour government is in strife. Having trailed the John Key-led National Party by as much as 18 points during the campaign, it looks ripe for the kind of electoral execution to which all long-term governments are vulnerable - the kind where voters decide they're sick of the sight of you. Days out from polling, Clark's best hope rests in the vagaries of the country's Mixed Member Proportional voting system, which make it unlikely that either major party will...
...with her government, nearly all concede a grudging respect for Clark. "She hasn't dropped a pass," says Stuart Wright, a sheep and potato farmer in Sheffield, west of Christchurch. Like Wright, Ken Arthur, a winegrower in Blenheim at the top of the South Island, wants Labour ousted. But he respects the P.M. as a straight talker. In 2003, Clark declined to involve New Zealand in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. "I would have to say she did well there," says Arthur, who served for 30 years in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. "I didn't agree with...
...companies. Osborne and Feldman vigorously deny soliciting funding from Deripaska, a foreign national, or discussing ways to circumvent the rules. Despite calls led by Prime Minister Brown for an investigation into the matter, the Electoral Commission indicated that it saw no need for such inquiries and Tony Wright, a Labour MP who chaired the parliamentary committee that investigated a funding scandal during Blair's final term, also suggested the Tories were in the clear. "We are not talking about corruption here. We are not talking about law-breaking," said Wright. This was about "a massive misjudgment." Or, as Lord Tebbit...
...financial meltdown, British pols were trading blows. "We meet at a time of national anxiety," Osborne told delegates at the Conservative party conference on Sept. 29. He asserted that his party was determined to make rich bankers pay for the mess they had helped to create. "Unlike New Labour we are not bedazzled by big money," he said...
...said, had "dripped pure poison" about Blair's successor, Brown. In the normal course of events, that would scarcely have merited a paragraph in the British press. Mandelson and Brown had been embroiled in bitter feuding since the mid 1990s, when Mandelson backed Blair over Brown for the Labour leadership. But Brown's surprise move to recall Mandelson to government trained the spotlight back on their relationship...