STRAWS IN THE WIND: Tories favoured / West Europe model*

The Australian media rarely report the annual British local elections, which are conducted nationwide, including Scotland and Wales. This silence is broken only when the Tories suffer heavy losses, and Labour or better still, the Greens, do well. Nothing like that occurred this time; so our media was silent. Labour lost 800 seats, while the Tories, winning more than 600 extra seats, became the dominant party in local government for the first time since 1991.The British Liberals and Greens failed…

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