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...Howard, the Conservative leader. The Tories gained 33 seats, but are so far from their glory days under Margaret Thatcher that their share of the popular vote was no greater than in 2001. The Lib Dems had their best results since the 1920s, picking up 11 seats, mostly from Labour - but had hoped for more...
...Scot put his feud with Blair aside last month to plunge into a campaign that needed him badly, according to the polls, decisions were made smoothly. Blair and Brown themselves seemed to relish being good friends again. They were "laughing like they did 10 years ago" said one Labour veteran, as they barnstormed together around the country - and the bonhomie did not hurt with voters, either. The ministerial reshuffle Blair announced after the election promoted enough Brown acolytes to suggest that the era of good feelings isn't yet over...
...have policy differences. Brown, though a supporter of business and leery of tax rates that might drive the wealthy out of Britain, is considered more left-wing, or "Old Labour." He has more passion for redistributing money to the poorest than Blair, and is concerned that injecting more choice into public services will lead to unacceptably different standards of quality. But these disputes have always been "pretty subtle - the sort of thing you have to be a senior civil servant or a think-tank person to put your finger on," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society...
...Blair is not yet done for. True, says one M.P., "the power of initiative is with Gordon." But, he continues: "The freedom is with Tony. Gordon has more to worry about." Brown has yet to win the hearts of middle England, without which Blair would not have won Labour's stunning victories in 1997 and 2001. Still, he's trying. At the final press conference before the election, almost jolly in his role as heir apparent, Brown deviated from his prepared text to soften rousing attacks on the privileged into gentler critiques of their privileges. Says a Blair ally...
...ELECTED. TONY BLAIR, 52, to a third term as Prime Minister of Britain, the first time the Labour Party has won three consecutive elections; in London. But in a sign of how deeply Blair's support for the Iraq war has weakened him politically, his party's majority in the House of Commons fell from 161 to 66. "I have listened, and I have learned," Blair said...