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...outside Lockerbie, thus raising again suggestions that they had been planted on the scene. He and some other families want to see politicians in power at the time-among them Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher-questioned about the explosion and the subsequent investigation. Tony Blair's New Labour government might not be ill-disposed to an inquiry into the workings of a Conservative predecessor, but officials say no decision will be made until the criminal process against al-Megrahi has run its full course. Martin Cadman, another British family member, was blunt in suggesting that the wrong...
...absence of a common E.U. immigration policy, governments are racing to the bottom in the level of benefits they offer immigrants hoping to stay. While refugee-rights groups have criticized Britain's Labour government for issuing a meager $50 weekly to asylum seekers, two-thirds of it in vouchers, other countries' policies are even worse. Germany, for instance, has slashed monthly pocket money to $40 and requires would-be refugees to stay in detention centers for their first three months. At a time of upheaval throughout the developing world, Europe's parsimony has done nothing for its reputation. Last month...
RESIGNED. PETER MANDELSON, 47, British minister responsible for Northern Ireland, close confidant to Prime Minister Tony Blair and mastermind of Labour's landslide 1997 election victory, after allegations that he had improperly intervened to help secure a passport for controversial Indian businessman, Srichand Hinduja; in London. Mandelson's second resignation from the cabinet in two years -- in December 1998 he quit over a secret real estate loan from a wealthy fellow minister -- looks certain to end his political career, and is a blow to Blair coming shortly before the next general election, which is expected...
...election. Like the New Democrats, New Labourites are worried that their co-opting of many conservative themes has offered their constituency very little enticement. Sure, Blair has an easy lead in the polls, but that could vanish if turnout is low, since the Tory base is as angry as Labour's is indifferent. So just as Al Gore ran hard to his left in last year's presidential campaign, so Blair is desperate to galvanize working-class supporters. A good bashing of the aristocracy is just what the pollster ordered...
Alas, this easygoing tolerance suffered a heavy blow last week. In a parliamentary vote, Prime Minister Tony Blair's massed ranks of Labour Party deputies voted to ban the practice outright. It isn't the law yet--the House of Lords (another eccentric English institution) and the Queen (who was recently photographed strangling a wounded pheasant) must eventually give their consent. But the Queen and her Lordships have about as much clout in Cool Britannia as foxhunters and retired generals. Centuries of English rural loopiness will therefore shortly join the ranks of extinguished British institutions, like red telephone boxes, farthings...