“The voters have spoken quite convincingly!” says Anne Marie Morris, the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Newton Abbot on her blog. “Devon was a landslide in favour of the Conservative Party – and locally there was a strong vote for change. Across the country as a whole the Conservative vote share was 15 percentage points higher than Labour – a nine per cent swing.”
And as the dust settled, leading Tory South West Euro MP was also magnanimous in victory.
“I’m delighted to have seen the Conservatives do better than five years ago, gaining an additional seat, and look forward to welcoming both Julie Girling and Ashley Fox to the European Parliament,” Giles Chichester told the PRSD.
“I would also like to offer my congratulations to UKIP on retaining their two seats and I would have liked to congratulate Graham Watson on retaining his Lib Dem seat, had he been present at the declaration in Poole. It is clear that an overwhelming majority of people in the South West support parties that demand a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty so Gordon Brown must be rueing the day he decided to renege on his manifesto pledge. What we want now is for him to make up for it by holding a General Election immediately.”
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