"Keep the Tories tame!" urged Lon don's pro-Labor Daily Mirror as election day neared. "A bloated majority for the Tories would be a national disaster."
It was Labor's white flag. A few guns kept firing and a few final grenades arced through the political air. But Labor, divided and dispirited, had already fallen back to the simple hope of averting a Conservative landslide.
In calm profusion, Britons went to the polls. The result was a sharp and decisive victory for Great Britain's Conservative Party and the first solidly entrenched Brit ish government in...
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