Moreover, if Cameron and the Conservatives were to win a wafer-thin majority of seats with, say, 40% of the popular vote, what mandate for reform would he have?
Mr Netanyahu won on a wafer-thin majority in 1996, and the late Yitzhak Rabin won even more narrowly under the electoral system that prevailed in 1992.
Union support proved decisive when Ed won a wafer-thin victory over his older brother by 50.65 to 49.35 per cent.
BAGHDAD — The secular party of Ayad Allawi, a former interim prime minister once derided as an American puppet, won a wafer-thin victory in Iraq's election, setting the stage for a protracted period of political uncertainty and possible violence that could threaten plans to withdraw American troops.
And while Iran is not believed to oppose Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's return to power, it views with deep suspicion Ayad Allawi, a former interim prime minister and secular Shiite politician whose electoral coalition won a wafer-thin victory over Mr. Maliki's in the parliamentary vote.
Ed Miliband won by a wafer-thin margin of just 1.3 percentage points after second preference votes were taken into account.
The party room meeting, at 9am on Monday, will be the first formal meeting since the election campaign, which the Coalition won by a wafer-thin majority.
The issue surfaced almost immediately after Turnbull won the election with a wafer-thin margin, in part as a campaign to stir up internal trouble and in part because a number of Coalition parliamentarians have strong views on the issue.
If Democrats win control of Congress, even by a wafer-thin margin, Mueller will suddenly gain a small army of powerful new supporters with the ability to launch their own parallel investigations, experts said.
Should Mr Berlusconi's centre-right coalition bounce back and win, it too is likely to have a wafer-thin majority.
