"Amazing result," says Dundee Liberal Democrat Convener
June 30, 2006 6:01 AM
Sir Menzies Campbell and Ben Abbotts
Dundee Liberal Democrat Convener Raymond Lawrie said this morning (Friday 30th June) that the outcome of the Bromley and Chislehurst by-election was an "amazing result" for the Liberal Democrats.
The Conservatives held Bromley and Chislehurst, in south-east England, but their 2005 majority was slashed from 13 342 votes to a paltry 633 by the LibDems.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell praised his party's near-miss as a "stupendous result" in "one of the safest Conservative seats in the country".
"It shows that there is no confidence in Cameron's Tories in the Conservative heartlands," he said.
Sir Menzies added that the results in both Blaenau Gwent and Bromley were a "complete rejection of the Labour government".
Locally, Raymond Lawrie added that, coming after the spectacular LibDem win in Dunfermline and West Fife, everything pointed to Liberal Democrat success in the May 2007 elections.
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