Thursday’s local elections in England proved as muddy as last year’s parliamentary vote. You’d think that eventually one of Britain’s two main parties would want to rack up an unambiguous win.
English voters elected the local councilors responsible for road maintenance, trash collection, some social-service provision and the like. Conservatives and Labour both won council seats from the pro-Brexit U.K. Independence Party, but neither major party swung control of a large number of councils or grabbed a large number of council...