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Blair's Memoir Tackles Iraq, Alcohol, Clinton and Bush
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Sept. 1) -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair offers biting portraits of other world leaders and a searing account of how war and political infighting took their toll on him in a memoir published today. The autobiography, titled "A Journey," has been long awaited by the British public. And although the country is almost equally split between those who detest the ex-leader -- largely because they think he tricked the country into joining the Iraq war -- and those who admire his decisive leadership style, both pro- and anti-Blairites are fascinated by his decade in power. The ...
British Elections: Why Labour and Tories Are Declining, and 9 Other Trends
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyIf 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 ...
New Prime Minister David Cameron Ends Labour Party Era in Britain
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyTwo years after the Conservatives surged to a 20 percentage point lead over Gordon Brown's sputtering Labour government in the British polls, 43-year-old Tory leader David Cameron finally became prime minister. But instead of an easy glide path to power, Cameron had to wait an agonizing five days after the inconclusive May 6 election before he could make the symbolic pilgrimage to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday night to formally accept Queen Elizabeth's invitation to form a new coalition government. Nearly 30 million British voters went to the polls in an election that left the Conservatives ...
Tories, Liberal Democrats Hold 'Positive' Talks on New Government
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailySenior Conservative and Liberal Democrats met Sunday for six hours in what a Tory spokesman described as "very positive and productive" talks to see if they could form a new government together. The leaders of both parties, the Conservative's David Cameron and Liberal Democrat's Nick Clegg, did not attend the sessions. The negotiating teams are to meet again within 24 hours after consulting their leaders, according to reports by the BBC and Times of London. Clegg did meet with Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown who has offered to open talks with the Liberal Democrats if they fail to reach ...
British Exit Polls Project Hung Parliament and Conservative Gains
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyAs Big Ben struck 10 o'clock in London and the polls closed across Britain, the BBC released its exit polls on the general election that forecast a hung Parliament with the Conservatives projected to win 307 seats, incumbent Labor to drop to 255 seats, the Liberal Democrats to snag 59 seats and minor regional parties to pick up 29 seats. If these results are accurate (and this is a major if), it would leave the Conservatives just short of a majority in the 630-seat Parliament. Since this has been an unprecedented election campaign featuring the first national party leader television debates ...
British Elections: Why Glenda Jackson Should Replace Gordon Brown
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyMemo 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 ...
British Elections: The Rise of the Also-Rans
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (April 27) -- Don't worry if you've never heard of Nick Clegg. Until two weeks ago, the leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats -- which for the past 20 years have consistently come in third in national elections -- was barely known in his own country, let alone abroad. Now with only nine days left until Britons go to the polls, Clegg looks set to emerge as a major force in British politics. Since the 1930s, British elections have largely been a two-party affair. The only candidates who really counted came from center-left Labour, the incumbent, or the center-right Conservatives, also ...
Nick Clegg -- Next British PM? -- Infuses U.K. Election With Personality
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyA funny thing happened on the way to the 2010 general elections in the United Kingdom: Personality began to matter. And the reason can be summed up in two words -- Nick Clegg -- leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats Party. Never heard of Nick Clegg? You're in good company. Neither had half of Great Britain before last week. That's when Clegg electrified a heretofore moribund campaign season with his dazzling performance in the first-ever televised debates between the three candidates for prime minister. Overnight, Clegg went from the guy that the other parties walked out on when he spoke ...
Protesting Brits Give Labour Party the Boot
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(April 7) -- Some boots are made for walking -- others are made for protesting. At least that's the case in London, where members of the nation's Conservative Party have constructed an enormous pair of work boots to demonstrate against the ruling Labour Party as the country's May 6 general election nears. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=705444&pid=705443&uts=1270661803 ...
Why a Hung Parliament in the U.K. Might Not Be So Bad
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyIt looks increasingly likely that the British general elections will go right down to the wire. While the opposition Conservative party led the incumbent Labour party by as many as 17 percentage points last year, in recent weeks the race has become much more competitive. Many are now predicting that the election -- which must be held by early June -- may end in a hung parliament. ...
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