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I've been reading about the Pro-Euro Conservative Party, a brief and somewhat shoddy effort to break off the Tory left during the Hague years. The group got some backing but mainly from ex-MPs and they failed to get the backing of the likes of Ken Clarke and Michael Heseltine as they hoped. They did however get an 11% showing in polls before the 1999 European elections. They ended up with 1.4% of the vote.

Now despite their weakness they're intriguing and I was wondering is their anyway post-1979, for the wets to break off from the Conservative Party, either to create a new party or join up with the Liberal Democrats as many seemed keen to do. could you get big names like Clarke to jump ship if a suitably nasty figure took the Party hard right?
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