For Labour, the Scottish Years Are Over at Its Most Successful, As in 1945 and 1997, the Party Spoke for England. Labour Again Needs Leaders Who Understand the Concerns and Character of English Voters

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After Glasgow, Labour has to do more than debate its leadership and see off excited calls by union leaders for challenges to Gordon Brown. Instead the party has to confront an existential problem of its own making: the question of England.

Voters are punishing political leaders across the globe as the triple tsunami of rising costs of fuel, food and credit destroy purchasing power. For Britain's Ryanair and Easyjet voters - there are plenty in Glasgow East, despite its poverty - the anger about seeing ends no longer meeting is taken out in the safety of a by- election polling booth.

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For Labour, the Scottish Years Are Over at Its Most Successful, As in 1945 and 1997, the Party Spoke for England. Labour Again Needs Leaders Who Understand the Concerns and Character of English Voters

But Labour has to understand the deeper currents of political history far removed from the leadership buzz, as ministers and activists meet in Warwick today. If Tony Blair answered the Irish question, the people of Scotland and the voters of Glasgow East have answered the Scotti...

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