JUST LIKE BILL?

NO, BUT LIKE CLINTON, BRITAIN'S TONY BLAIR HAS FOUND SUCCESS IN THE POLITICAL CENTER

It didn't take a politician of Churchillian stature to figure out what needed doing. The Labour Party hadn't won a national election in Britain for 23 years. Its tattered platform of watered-down Bolshevism had become as irrelevant as the suits of armor in the Tower of London.

No one will probably mistake him for Churchill, but when Tony Blair grabbed the leadership of the Labourites in 1994, he trashed the old lefties and jerked the party into the post-ideological center. And now he is on a roll. He may even be unstoppable. If the polls are accurate, and they have been...

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