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...almost to the point of contradiction: a former member of the Young Communist League who served as Britain's Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, a committed pro-European appointed by one of the E.U.'s most Euro-skeptic countries. He played a central role in the British Labour Party's makeover from an unpopular assemblage of hapless lefties to the formidable vote-getting machine it has become. But Mandelson is also notoriously Machiavellian and polarizing, well-known for using anonymous briefings to favored journalists to advance himself and trash his enemies. He can be quite taken with...
...article "The Long Goodbye" [May 9] makes a good point concerning the choice for the electorate in the recently concluded election. Blair and the Labour Party have been given a new mandate; however there have been a few hitches - George Galloway, anyone? Considering the result that the Liberal Democrats received was their best since 1922 under Lloyd George, I believe the case for proportional representation in England - as it has been enacted in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - has become stronger. Joshua Selig Dorset, England Show of Force I was delighted with your piece on the highly anticipated third episode...
...Galloway is determined to prove him wrong. The newly elected M.P. for the antiwar, socialist Respect party has called the collapse of the Soviet Union "the biggest catastrophe of my life"; has told Saddam Hussein, "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability"; and was expelled from the Labour Party for - among other reasons - saying Blair and George W. Bush had "attacked Iraq like wolves." Last week his rhetoric served him well when he trounced a U.S. Senate committee that had accused him of profiting from 20 million barrels of oil it said had been secretly allocated...
...clan’s decision-making process created quite a stir in England, where many voters were upset by what the document revealed about their government’s naked intent to manipulate public opinion. The disclosure came at a particularly bad time for Blair and other Labour MPs, as it forced him to publicly address the issue in the last days of his campaign for re-election...
...long way to come before being a Thatcherite." MARGARET THATCHER, British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, on Labour leader Tony Blair's historic re-election to a third term. Blair needs to remain Prime Minister until November 2008 to surpass Thatcher's record of 11 years and 209 days in office