AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!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 ...
A 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 ...
It 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. ...
I recognize that the mood in the U.S. isn't particularly buoyant right now. Between high unemployment rates, a recent near-miss terrorist attack, and the collective angst around the future of health care reform, Americans of all political stripes are pretty gloomy. Which is why I was shocked to meet someone the other night who's betting the farm on America in the long run. He's a British businessman whom I met at a dinner party. And he recently made the very calculated choice to move his wife and two children to New York City . . . for good. As an American who's lived in the U.K. for 3˝ ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
News From Our Partners




Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services