| Sumario: | The row over the expenses of Michael Martin, speaker in the House of Commons, has highlighted Great Britain's embrace of visceral class-war politics as the ideological differences between Conservatives and Labour are set aside. When both parties speak of free-market economics and social liberalism, all that is left to divide them is the conventional class allegiances. This is a problem for David Cameron as he tries to convince British voters that his Conservative Party really has changed, but the new class war is potentially more difficult for Labour, whose younger politicians must work out how to define themselves against the other parties without reverting to the old politics of class identity. This may entail a return to core Labour values of tackling poverty, social injustice, and inequality.
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