People walk past a giant inflatable representation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson outside the Mill House Leisure Center where the count process for the Parliamentary by-election is taking place in Hartlepool, England, on May 7, 2021. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
After every election, pundits see the result as evidence of the terminal decline of the losing party. This is certainly the case in Britain, where the Labour Party suffered a catastrophic defeat in the recent local elections and the by-election in Hartlepool, a solidly Labour seat that the Tories won.
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Paul Adams is a professor emeritus of social work at the University of Hawai‘i, and was professor and associate dean of academic affairs at Case Western Reserve University. He is the co-author of "Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is," and has written extensively on social welfare policy and professional and virtue ethics.
