British Labor Views the Future

A strange silence fell over the British Labor Party immediately after its electoral defeat. Even the flurry of mutual recrimination within the party leadership hardly lasted more than a few days. The annual party conference held in October of last year impressed observers more by its dullness than by anything else. Disunity remains, but a split has been avoided; disagreement continues, but the movement goes on.

The truth is that once the elections were over, the real issues before Brit...