New Britain
Politics without class
ONCE upon a time, Britain was a country in which most people voted, many of them voting for the party they thought best represented their class. The result was that the electoral system ensured that power alternated between two big class-based parties, Conservative and Labour. That country no longer exists. New Labour has rewritten the script of British politics.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “New Britain”
From the June 16th 2001 edition
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