Labor loses a key by-election
For half a century, Britain's Labor Party has dominated the grubby, working-class constituency of Bermondsey, a South London neighborhood of brick row houses and dreary wharfs. Last week, in a stunning upset, Social Democratic Party/Liberal alliance Candidate Simon Hughes, 31, broke that long hold by winning 57.7% of the vote in a parliamentary by-election. It was a humiliating defeat for Labor's Peter Tatchell, 31, who won only 26.1%. The result, declared Social Democratic Leader Roy Jenkins, was "a sensational, a magnificent victory that exceeded my highest expectations....
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