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Humiliating Defeat for UK Ruling Party

Labour comes in 5th place in election on Brown's anniversary

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(Newser) – On the first anniversary of Gordon Brown's premiership, the Labour Party went down to a humiliating fifth-place finish in a special election near Oxford, reports the Times of London. Although the Tories had been expected to retain the seat vacated by new London mayor Boris Johnson, the ruling party came behind not only the third-party Liberal Democrats, but also the Greens and a whites-only extremist party.

An election in London Mayor Boris Johnson's old parliamentary seat saw Labour go down to a fifth-place finish.
An election in London Mayor Boris Johnson's old parliamentary seat saw Labour go down to a fifth-place finish.   (AP Photo/Akira Suemori, file)
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech on social mobility at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in central London, Monday, June 23, 2008.
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech on social mobility at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in central London, Monday, June 23, 2008.   (AP Photo/Akira Suemori,pool)
David Cameron, whose Tories won a special election in Oxfordshire.
David Cameron, whose Tories won a special election in Oxfordshire.   (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)
David Cameron, whose Tories won a special election in Oxfordshire.
David Cameron, whose Tories won a special election in Oxfordshire.   (AP Photo)
Backdropped by a painting of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, British Conservative Party leader and the main opposition leader David Cameron gives a speech about Iran's nuclear program, in central London, Tuesday May 22, 2007.
Backdropped by a painting of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, British Conservative Party leader and the main opposition leader David Cameron gives a speech about Iran's nuclear program,...   (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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