The end of a political era

"The English and Welsh have taken the opportunity to teach the unpopular Labour government a lesson. ... Labour's results were so disastrous that many are already speaking of the end of a political era. The new centre, that broad coalition of workers and liberals which swept Labour to power a decade ago, is no more, and has outlived its inventor Tony Blair, who left office last summer, by less than a year. .... The political roadmap must be written anew. Labour has all but disappeared as a political force in the south of England. ... Gordon Brown took office just ten months ago. ... but now the party is aghast to see that rather than being the solution to its problems, Brown himself is the problem."

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