UK Conservative Party to face worst defeat in EU elections

A new survey shows Britain’s ruling Conservative Party will, for the first time, suffer a humiliating defeat in the European Parliament elections this year, finishing third behind the UK Independence Party (UKIP). 

The YouGov poll for the Sun newspaper found that the Conservatives would come third with only 23 percent of the vote, UKIP second with 26 percent and the main opposition Labour party would win the elections with 32 percent.

The Liberal Democrats, junior party to the first coalition government since World War II, are projected to lose all their European lawmakers, coming forth with just 9 percent.

The results are the worst ever for the ruling Conservatives in a national election, meaning that they have failed in their attempts to ward off the threat posed by the UKIP.




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