Though the Lib Dems avoided the ultimate humiliation of being wiped off
the European electoral map — one of their 11 MEPs survived — the party trailed in fifth place behind the Greens, its 7 % share of the vote half that won five years earlier.
Not exact matches
Finally, strategically, the two key issues around which Blair will seek to fundamentally re-draw the
map of the British political system are entry into the
European Single Currency and
electoral reform.