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come in the U.K. The basic committment of “new Labour,” explained a Blair adviser, is to achieve the funda- * mental social justice-advocated by “old Labour” through addpting means and methods attuned to the social, political and global economic realities v of the present day. The May 1 Labour landslide (or “May Day Massacre,” as'the pro-Tory “Daily Telegraph” newspaper called it) was a national vote of-"' confidence in this approach and promise. ,,v
After spending election night at'-° the London School of Economics’ gathering for foreign journalists, I-< crossed the river and heard Tony-' Blair’s 5 a.m. victory speech to the'nation from the Royal Festival Hall on “• ’ the South Bank of the Thames. Later, ’ " as I walked back across the Thames over Waterloo Bridge, the sun was just'* rising beautifully behind St. Paul’s v Cathedral. I could not help but recall Ronald Reagan’s 1980 victory paean, “It’s morning in American.” I recalled^ it again later that day, when Tony Blair said as he was about to enter No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s ' residence: “A new dawn has broken and it’s wonderful. This is a new era of politics in Britain.” A commoi^ imagery accompanies political landslides on both sides of the Atlantic, on both side of the right-left divide. Thi* is how democratic change comes about in the Anglo-American tradi-. tion.
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