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The Labour soap opera.(Labour Party)
American Prospect, The, May, 2006 by Schmitt, Mark
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> LONDON IS A PLACE WHERE THOMAS FRANK'S famous book bears the title What's the Matter with America?, thus extending the indictment to the whole nation, and where a small American child is required to affirm that she hates George W. Bush before she can join English tykes on the jungle gym. Even so, the principal obsession is no longer the subservience of Tony Blair to Bush, but a much older soap opera, now entering its dreary tenth season: Blair versus Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer and his long-anticipated successor as leader of the Labour Party and, presumptively, prime ...
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