Kicked in the Teeth ; Ukip Give Both Labour and Tories a Hiding in Euro Election
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THE Tories were reeling last night after the UK Independence Party made big gains in the European elections at their expense.
UKIP's campaign to pull Britain out of the EU won a strong response as the votes were counted from last Thursday's poll.See the full content of this document
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Kicked in the Teeth ; Ukip Give Both Labour and Tories a Hiding in Euro Election
It was Michael Howard's Tories who paid the heaviest price as supporters deserted in droves. UKIP's intervention prevented the Tories capitalising on Labour's own abysmal performance, the worst in any poll since 1918.
UKIP took two of the seven seats in their stronghold of the South West, where they came second to the Tories...See the full content of this document
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