51.   Conservative legislators eliminated one candidate from a five-way race for the party leadership Thursday, knocking aristocrat and former party chairman Michael Ancram out of the running.

52.   Conservative legislators from fishing constituencies said they may join anti-European Conservatives and the opposition Labor Party to vote against the government on Tuesday in a debate.

53.   Conservative legislator, outspoken foe of closer European unity.

54.   Duncan Smith and other Conservative legislators then left for London to attend an emergency debate in Parliament on the Afghan situation.

55.   Faced with this, Major has put off until later in the spring a special parliamentary election in Perth and Kinross, whose Conservative legislator died in February.

56.   He was complaining about rebel Conservative legislators who sided with opposition parties to defeat the government on Tuesday night.

57.   Howard has been under strong pressure by conservative legislators in his coalition and church leaders to press for a complete ban on embryonic research.

58.   In December, Conservative legislator Emma Nicholson defected to the small centrist Liberal Democratic Party.

59.   In addition, a Conservative legislator died recently and the government may lose that by-election in the New Year.

60.   In October, Conservative legislator Alan Howarth became the first Conservative ever to switch allegiance to the main opposition Labor Party.