Beneath the Brown Miracle
William Keegan Observer
The 7 June General Election in the UK was superbly well timed. The press can only concentrate on one thing at a time, and it had lost interest in foot and mouth, even though the scale of the agricultural disaster was not obviously diminishing. Meanwhile, despite dark clouds on the horizon, the general view was that New Labour had performed wonders with the economy and the nations fitness. Within a decade, it had transformed itself into the Party of Economic Competence, a title coveted ever since the Tories had made fools of themselves...