Bromley result exposes lack of Tory momentum - Sollitt

10.27.00am BST (GMT +0100) Fri 30th Jun 2006

Sir Ming Campbell with Ben Abbotts, Lib Dem Candidate in Bromley

Commenting on the result of the Bromley & Chislehurst by-election, which saw the Conservative majority slashed to just 633 votes in a previous safe seat, Lib Dem Campaigner and former Parliamentary candidate for Southampton Test, Steve Sollitt said "This result shows that all the talk of Conservative recovery under David Cameron comes to nothing when voters are faced with a clear choice at the ballot box. There is no momentum to the Tory campaign either in Bromley or here in Southampton Test.. At the last election here the Tories vote stayed static whilst the Lib Dem vote increased nearly 7%"

The result was also bad for Labour who were pushed into 4th place behind UKIP and also failed to regain the safe seat of Blaenau Gwent which was won by an Independent.

"Both the Conservatives and Labour are failing people in our Country and these by-elections show increasingly people are turning to the Lib Dems" added Steve.