At 6:30 a.m. one day last week, a Tory Party worker drove his sound truck through the sleepy streets of London's suburban Thornton Heath, roused the neighborhood by trumpeting through his loudspeaker: "Wakie, Wakieup you get and up the Tories go."
Up, indeed, the Tories went. In the last major election test before next year's general elections, they inflicted a stinging defeat on Britain's Labor government, which was still sore from the beating it took at last month's London County Council elections and other county contests (TIME, April 18). All week, on successive voting days, 7,000,000 Britons went to the...
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