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Cameron doesn't deny his past, but he's keen not to dwell on it either, even though the politics of envy - once a potent weapon for Labour - has lost traction. That was the cheering message Tories could take from their May by-election victory in Crewe and Nantwich, a constituency in northwest England. Edward Timpson, heir to a shoe-repair chain, won easily there, despite a negative campaign that burlesqued him as a "Tory toff." Likewise, concludes Iain Dale, a Conservative blogger and the publisher of Total Politics magazine, Cameron's background is no longer an electoral liability...
...have triumphed in three successive electoral contests this summer. They defeated Labour in the London mayoral elections in May, installing Boris Johnson in City Hall, and followed that victory with two by-election wins, first in Henley, an affluent constituency west of London, and then in Crewe and Nantwich, a traditional Labour stronghold in the north of England...
Died. Jack Mills, 64, engineer of the royal mail train that in 1963 was robbed of $7,000,000; of pneumonia; in Nantwich, England. Mills was so severely beaten during the robbery that he was unable to continue as an engineer. When the wife of one of the bandits received $72,000 from a newspaper for her story of the crime, public embarrassment led to a fund-raising drive for Mills, who collected...
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