(EDITORIAL)…Britons have gone to the polls after a lapse of upwards of ten years … Who will come to power — Conservatives or Labour — has formed a wide range of speculations … But one thing is clear. The Tories have definitely fallen from public grace, and they have never been so much rattled before as now. Their apple cart is toppled.

Even that tower of strength to the Conservative Party, Mr. Churchill, who was so supremely confident of victory even in Britain’s darkest hours of late, seems to have lost much of his confidence and cocksureness about his ability to lead his Party to victory in the election battle. The British people have seen enough of him in the days following the cessation of hostilities in Europe to be able to decide what to do with him and the party to which he belongs. His glamour as a war-winner remains undimmed not doubt, but in the realm of peace such glamour has no place. In the fierce lights of the upheaval — political, economic and social — which is unerringly casting its spell on mankind, Mr. Churchill does not appear to be the man of the moment. He is… a pitiful figure in the grand pageant of progressive forces…

Published in Dawn, July 6th, 2020