Britain | Psephology
Fatal squeeze
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THE largest number of Labour MPs ever elected: 419. Further ahead of the Conservatives in votes than ever before: a margin of 13 points. Surely only the terminally obtuse would quarrel with the claim that the election was a Labour landslide?
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Fatal squeeze”
From the May 10th 1997 edition
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