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  Cameron leadership at stake if Tories lose European elections, says ex-whip
  
  David Cameron has been warned that losing the European parliamentary elections May could
  
  unsettle Tory MPs in marginal seats.
  
  A senior Tory has warned that David Cameron's leadership would be at stake if the Conservative party
  
  loses next year's European parliamentary elections, something most polls, political betting sites and
  
  the Ukip have said was likely to happen.
  
  The warning that the European elections could prove to be a flashpoint for Cameron's premiership was
  
  made by David Ruffley, a member of the home affairs select committee and a former Tory whip.
  
  He said MPs in marginal seats would be unsettled if the prime minister had failed to turn around the
  
  party's fortunes at the ballot box next year.
  
  Ruffley told Sky's Murnaghan programme: "I think next May's Euro elections might put pressure on him
  
  to go harder because there is a lot of speculation in and around Downing Street, so I am led to believe,
  
  that Ukip might come first.

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