UK Conservatives fear mid-term bruising

SBS Thursday 3rd May, 2012

Britons voted in local elections on Thursday with London mayor Boris Johnson set to stay in office in an Olympic year but the country's governing coalition expected to take a mid-term battering.Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron's two-year-old coalition with the Liberal Democrats has become increasingly unpopular due to a double-dip recession, austerity and a series of blunders.Polls opened in typically British wet, windy weather at 0600 G...

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