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Last week Roy Jenkins reaped his reward. In a hard-fought, down-to-the-wire battle in the well-heeled but wary Glasgow constituency of Hillhead, he emerged with 33.4% of the ballot, 2,038 votes ahead of the second-place Conservative candidate. Jenkins quickly acknowledged the support of the small Liberal Party and its leader, David Steel, who cemented an alliance with the S.D.P. last September. The win, exulted Jenkins, was a "triumph of the new deal of sense, moderation and hope we have offered...
...17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, between Liberals and Conservatives in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and between Laborites and Conservatives since then. Though the S.D.P.-Liberal alliance has only 41 mem bers in Parliament (twelve Liberals, 29 Social Democrats), including Jenkins' new seat from Hillhead, its prospects induced euphoria. "I want to offer a new choice to the people of Britain," said Jenkins last week. "If that means offering myself as Prime Minister, then I am willing to do it." With general elections due no later than June 1984, the new allies present a powerful third force...