LabourList: Moving on from Blair: British Labour selects new leader
By Anthony Painter
The British Labour party has ditched Tony Blair and his legacy. That is the simple message from Saturday’s victory of Ed Miliband in the gruesomely complex electoral college of labor unions, party members, and Members of Parliament that elects a Labour leader. The margin was narrow at 50.65% against the 49.35% polled by his older brother (yes, you read right, his brother), David Miliband.
Ed Miliband’s victory signals a deeper realignment that has happened in British politics ever since the general election of earlier this year led to no party securing an overall majority. Prime Minister David Cameron’s ‘compassionate conservatism’ has been given a liberal edge – in the British sense of the word that focuses on individual freedom – through the inclusion in a coalition of the centrist Liberal Democratic party led by Nick Clegg.
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