**FILE** The Co-Chairman of Britain's opposition Conservative Party and likely candidate for the Conservative party leadership later in 2005 Liam Fox awaits the arrival of his party leader Michael Howard for a media event to unveil 54 Conservative MPs, who were elected in last week's General Election, outside the Houses of Parliament in London, in this Monday May 9, 2005 file photograph. The once mighty party of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher hopes a new leader will transform its ailing fortunes. But as a string of contenders line up to take the Conservative helm, sharp divisions over the Iraq war and the European Union threaten further splits in a party already grappling with an identity crisis. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)