Ten million votes but does Cameron deserve to be PM?

Ten million people may have voted for David Cameron, but that also means some 19 million didn't

Laura Miller
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Ten million people may have voted for David Cameron, but that also means some 19 million didn't...

With just 36% of the popular vote - and no overall majority - does Cameron have the right to start throwing his weight around as he did today when essentially inviting the Liberal Democrats to join him in office, albeit on his party's terms. Clegg stumped up behind the Tory leader ahead of the offer, saying because the Conservatives received almost three million more votes than Labour, they should have the first chance to form a Government. A total of 10,681,417 people may have voted for David Cameron and the Tories, but that leaves 18,916964 who chose to vote for someone and somethin...

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