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Published: 05/23/10

British Elections: Why Labour and Tories Are Declining, and 9 Other Trends

By  Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily
British Elections: Why Labour and Tories Are Declining, and 9 Other Trends

If you followed the press coverage of this month's general elections in the United Kingdom, you're likely to come away with the sense that we just witnessed a watershed moment in this country's political history. But were these elections really historic? And if so, why? There's no question that there was a lot of drama packed into the brief, four-week election period that ended on May 6. It saw the first-ever televised political debates between the three main party leaders. Nick Clegg became a household name. And in the end, because no one party secured a majority, two political parties ...

Published: 05/2/10

British Elections: Why Glenda Jackson Should Replace Gordon Brown

By  Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily
British Elections: Why Glenda Jackson Should Replace Gordon Brown

Memo to the Labour Party HQ: Replace Gordon Brown with Glenda Jackson as your candidate in Thursday's election. It's not all that often that you have the chance to contemplate a "what if" scenario while an election is still under way. But that's exactly what happened to me on Friday afternoon. I was attending a "hustings" (open forum) for the Member of Parliament (MP) seat in my London constituency. It was the last time before the general election that the candidates from the three main political parties -- Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats -- would be together in one room. And as ...

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