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With a PoD no earlier than 2nd May 1997, find a way for the Conservative Party in the UK to fall to third place in the House of Commons, behind Labour and the Liberal Democrats (or some other party). Please no ASB or any silliness, but you can be adventurous. A Labour/Lib Dem wank is probably the easiest.

One way I propose is perhaps having Ken Clarke win the leadership election and then say that he wouldn't necessarily oppose entry into the Euro. This leads to outright civil war in the party and eventually it splitting between the pro-euro/non-anti-Europe faction and the ardent eurosceptics. The two parties fight each other rather than the Labour government, and the Lib Dems slip through the middle.
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