World: What a Labor Government Would Be Like

IT may still be a long way back to power, but every by-election and opinion poll in Britain today indicates that a growing majority of voters want a Labor government. In a far more prosperous society than the war-weary nation that elected the last Labor regime in 1945, the question is what life would be like under new Socialist leaders. Curiosity is most intense among voters under 30, who have been spared memories of the snoek (canned mock salmon), "reconstituted" eggs and whale steak of previous Laborite austerity.

Sensing that this new you-never-had-it-so-good generation is both weary of Tory rule and leary...

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