Gordon Brown has faced his Labour critics after another minister quit with a blast at his leadership. Environment minister Jane Kennedy said she could not support him as leader.
It came as the Labour party, recovering from the cabinet coup, digested a disastrous night of European election results which saw them beaten into third place by UKIP in the European Parliament elections.
The Tories came first, but failed to increase their total share significantly, while the far right BNP gained seats for the first time at national elections.
The Lib Dems saw their share of the vote shrink slightly, while in the South-East and South-West, the Green Party beat Labour into fifth place.
However, only 34% of the British electorate turned out to vote - one of the lowest turnouts in recent times.
Labour slumps to historic defeat
Nearly 1 million people voted BNP. But the BNP's success can be traced to the collapse in votes for the Labour party - the British people simply had enough of "New Labour" and Gordon Brown, and it showed with these results.
When one considers Labour's £5 billion tax raid on pension funds (by Chancellor Gordon Brown in 1997), ID cards, the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty that never was, the abolition of the 10p tax rate, sleaze, and (lest we forget) the UK economy saddled with a mountain of debt - it's not surprising that Labour supporters voted with their feet and stayed home.
But for those people who didn't vote, either as a form of protest, or as a result of apathy, you can't complain about the result...
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)
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