Trumpeted London's Laborite Daily Herald: "It is not enough to have a Labor Government in power at Westminster. The Government's most vital plans and reforms must be put into practice locally by means of towns and other councils."
Harrumphed the conservative Daily Mail: "The trend all the time is towards a concentration of Socialist power at the center and the loss of the authority, rights and privileges of local people...It must be resisted today by all responsible local electors."
With the issue thus neatly ticketed, Britons braved an icy drizzle to vote in last week's...
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