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    Cameron: Labour Has Lost Mandate

    Fri, 05/07/2010 - 02:33 EDT - WSJ Europe
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    U.K. opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron stopped short of claiming victory in national elections but said that the current poll results showed the governing Labour party has lost its mandate to govern Britain.

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