Cameron Left Wondering Where Votes Are After Eastleigh
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The U.K. Conservatives’ third-place showing yesterday in a special election left their leader, Prime Minister David Cameron, with the question of how his party can regain enough support to keep power in 2015.
Cameron failed to take it from his coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, who held the southern English district of Eastleigh yesterday in the face of a collapse in their national poll rating. And even though he pledged a referendum on European Union membership less than two months ago, Cameron’s party fell behind the anti-EU U.K. Independence Party, which attacked the premier for adopting traditionally non-Tory positions, including support for same-sex marriage.