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Article: Long, slow labour. (Labor Party, Great Britain) (Bagehot) (column)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 4, 1990
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IF THE Labour party does as well during the next parliamentary session as it did during the one just ended, it will ... fail to win the next general election. This may seem a harsh judgment, given that Labour enters the political dry-season around 12 points ahead of the Tories, but a surprising number of senior Labour mps agree.
The past year, remember, has been one of the worst the Tories have endured under Mrs Thatcher. Cabinet resignations and the leadership challenge; stubborn inflation; poor opinion-poll performances; Tory divisions over Europe, Hongkong, poll-tax reform and war criminals: all these have made Mrs Thatcher's third administration seem groggy ...