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...didn't take a politician of Churchillian stature to figure out what needed doing. The Labour Party hadn't won a national election in Britain for 23 years. Its tattered platform of watered-down Bolshevism had become as irrelevant as the suits of armor in the Tower of London...
...trashed the old lefties and jerked the party into the post-ideological center. And now he is on a roll. He may even be unstoppable. If the polls are accurate, and they have been remarkably consistent for months, Britain on May 1 will have its first Labour Party Prime Minister since James Callaghan lost to Margaret Thatcher...
LONDON: Now the Thatcher revolution is complete. In a major policy reversal, Labour leader Tony Blair announced Monday that his party, long the champion of nationalization, is ditching its official opposition to privatization. "Gone are the days when Labour represented one side of industry and business found itself automatically on the other," he told business leaders at London's Corn Exchange. "There should be no dogmatic belief. What counts is what works." What's more, if Labour regains No. 10 Downing Street after the May 1 election, Blair pledged that his party will end its regular consultations with trade unions...
...British government's weekly Question Time has always been a 19th century affair: charming, wooden and occasionally raucous. But last week the hallowed institution got a jolt from the Labour Party's modern arsenal of database and communications weaponry. As Conservative Prime Minister John Major fielded a softball question about the insurance business, a member of Labour's "rebuttal unit" dived into the party's database and identified the questioner as a paid consultant for the insurance industry. The researcher zapped the news via pager to a Labour M.P. sitting in the House of Commons, producing an awkward moment...
...their way through the Commons made more than one Conservative M.P. queasy. After mulling the matter over for an evening, Speaker Betty Boothroyd ruled that using the gadgets as an aide-memoire was "totally unacceptable," handing the Tories a victory in battle. But with the general election fast approaching, Labour's rapid response showed its determination...