Watch David Cameron’s reaction to the European election results…
Here in Salford, we narrowly failed to top the poll, with Labour ahead by just 900 votes and the Liberal Democrats in a poor fourth behind UKIP. This is a great result and we would have been comfortably ahead across the Worsley & Eccles South constituency.
Conservatives are now the only Party to have MEP representation in every part of the country, and now thanks to our link-up with the Ulster Unionists there is now an MEP elected under the Conservative banner in Northern Ireland too.
Just 900 votes?
Don’t you mean just shy of 1,000 votes? (981 to be exact)
Also, poor fourth?
The Lib Dems did very well for a pro-European party, when the vote was clearly anti-Europe.
Yes Steve, a poor fourth, which is what you were. Only a few hundred from fifth, in fact.
Actually Lib Dems were a comfortable fourth by 680 votes. I thought you went to a good school Iain – they would have taught you that a few hundred is 200.
The 2004 Euro election results were no use whatsoever as a guide to the 2005 GE result . I can recall some Conservatives adding together the Conservative and UKIP figures and claiming they would win the 2005 GE with over 40% of the vote .