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Humiliating Defeat for UK Ruling Party

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

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 27, 2008 6:45 AM CDT

(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... Read full story »

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