THE MORAL OF THE STORY

TONY BLAIR PROMISED MODEST CHANGE, MORE SPIRITUALITY--AND WON BY A LANDSLIDE

The British people woke up on Friday morning to a different world. For the first time in two decades there will be a genuinely new government, led by a man of 43 who will be the youngest Prime Minister since the early 19th century and who, for the first time, will bring young children to 10 Downing Street. It will be touching and reassuring to see kids' bikes and cricket bats in the grim hall of that historic house.

They also woke up to a Labour majority of such a size--419 seats--that it should prove easy to push through Tony Blair's...

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