Cameron Can Have Most Optimism of Farage Quake Victims
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Nigel Farage, the triumphant leader of the U.K. Independence Party, referred to the historic defeats he inflicted on Britain’s older parties as an “earthquake.” As its victims got back to their feet, Prime Minister David Cameron had the greatest cause for optimism.
While the May 22 European elections saw Cameron’s Conservatives come third in a national poll for the first time ever, they finished within 250,000 votes of the main opposition Labour Party in a vote in which governments are usually punished. As the premier pointed out, the Tories are the only main party to be offering voters a referendum on European Union membership, a key UKIP demand.