Euroskeptics surge but don’t win in UK election

Published June 6, 2014 9:57am ET



LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservatives hung onto victory in a special election closely watched as a test of surging Euroskeptic sentiment.

Conservative candidate Robert Jenrick won the Newark parliamentary seat by 7,400 votes — down from the 16,000-vote majority the party won in 2010.

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