Meanwhile, David Cameron joined
the Conservative election trail in Scotland.
Not exact matches
That particular pattern is anything but uncommon; Labour
trailed the
Conservatives in the 1999 and 2004 EP
elections and the
Conservatives performed worse than Labour in 1989.
Some months ago, I predicted that these euro -
elections would be a battle between Labour and UKIP for first place, with the
Conservatives trailing third.
The Political Forecasting Unit's «
election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the
Conservatives on top in terms of vote share, but Labour leading in terms of projected seats, despite
trailing last or joint last in terms of vote share.
Comparisons with recent
elections in the seat are impossible as most of the main parties have not opposed the Speaker, but it is worth noting that in every single other contested seat in Glasgow in 2005, the
Conservatives were
trailing in fourth place.
Labour faces a general
election within a year and
trails the opposition
Conservatives in opinion polls.
But Rubio says he'll still welcome some of the
conservative luminaries who endorsed him in the early days of his candidacy as he hits the general
election campaign
trail this fall.