..."With Election Looming, Tories Appear to Take a Detour in Britain":
A year ago, it looked as if the next British election would be an easy rout. The Conservative opposition was ahead in the polls by more than 20 percentage points. The prime minister was widely unpopular, the economy was an overstretched disaster, and the government seemed at times to be a chaotic pool of exhausted self-loathing.
Since then, in what may strike a note of caution for Republicans in Washington, the Conservative leader, David Cameron, has learned that it is not enough to sit back, relax and wait for a government to eat itself alive. With an election just months away, Mr. Cameron now finds that his lead is steadily evaporating and that despite his best efforts, the electorate still seems unsure what his party represents or what it intends to do, exactly.
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