Hanging On

Summary


As Labour suffered its worst election performance in 100 years, Gordon Brown's position, perversely, has been strengthened. Chris Lloyd looks at the future of the wounded Prime Minister

DISASTROUS. Calamitous. Cataclysmic. Catastrophic. Devastating. . . There's a thesaurus of words waiting to be employed to describe Labour's performance in the European elections.

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Hanging On

Perhaps a single fact paints a clearer picture.

Labour won 15.7 per cent of the vote - its lowest since 1910.

There are similar facts for Wales and Scotland, for the South- East and the South-West where it slumped to fifth, to Cornwall where it plunged to sixth, beaten even by the Corn...

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