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...enemies, but he has one very old and dear friend: Prime Minister Tony Blair, who last week named him the U.K.'s representative on the European Commission. Of Mandelson's talents and aptitude for the job there is little doubt. He is one of the Labour Party's most passionate pro-Europeans and a principal architect of the party's 1980s makeover from an unpopular assemblage of hapless lefties to the formidable centrist vote-getting machine it became under Blair. But he is also Machiavellian and polarizing. He has had to quit the Cabinet twice, first in 1998 when...
...notion of resigning over such grand mistakes now seems a quaint relic of a different constitutional era. Instead, Blair renovated his case for war, telling M.P.s it was good to get rid of Saddam in any event. Are people buying his argument? In two by-elections last week, Labour lost one safe seat and nearly lost another - not to the opposition Conservatives, but to the antiwar Liberal Democrats. The victorious Liberal Democrat candidate, Parmjit Singh Gill, said his constituency had "spoken for the people of Britain. Their message is that the Prime Minister has abused and lost their trust...
...Administration and put all the blame on the intelligence community," said one senior Republican. Similarly, if Butler goes easy on Downing Street, the temptation for Blair will be to say lessons have been learned. But unlike Bush, Blair faces an immediate test of public reaction: two by-elections in Labour-held areas this week...
...that the Party should "study and borrow from the useful practices" of ruling parties elsewhere in the world, in order to "widen our eyes and open our minds." The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported that Hu went on to say that the repositioning of the British Labour Party to the center was an example of political adaptation worth studying. So it is; but if China's leaders want to find a vibrant, modern, political culture, there's no need to make the trip to London. Hong Kong is much closer...
...that the Party should "study and borrow from the useful practices" of ruling parties elsewhere in the world, in order to "widen our eyes and open our minds." The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported that Hu went on to say that the repositioning of the British Labour Party to the center was an example of political adaptation worth studying. So it is; but if China's leaders want to find a vibrant, modern, political culture, there's no need to make the trip to London. Hong Kong is much closer...