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Cameron’s mission for 2014: stay out of third place

Defeat by Ukip in the Euro elections could drive the Tories into a panic from which they wouldn't recover

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

European elections are normally an afterthought in British politics. As even David Cameron admits, most of us struggle to remember who our MEPs are. Two-thirds of us don’t even bother to vote for them. But this year, the European elections are threatening to dominate politics.

Talk to Tory ministers and MPs about the year ahead, and they all look nervously towards May, because they know that the Conservative party is in real danger of coming third in a nationwide election for the first time in its history.

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