English voters frustrated with the deadlock over Brexit have punished Prime Mini...
LONDON - English voters frustrated with the deadlock over Brexit have punished Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives and the main opposition Labour Party in local elections, early results showed on Friday.
The main beneficiary of the swing against the two main parties - which are in talks to try to break the impasse in the UK parliament over Brexit - was the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, who had won 304 councillors so far, and said they hoped to make further gains in European Parliament elections on May 23.
Smaller parties also gained in the local elections, which traditionally are used as a protest vote against the incumbent party. The Greens, who also back a second Brexit referendum, gained 42 council seats, the partial results showed, and independent candidates won 215 seats. Nearly three years since the United Kingdom voted 52 percent to 48 percent to leave the EU, there is still no agreement among British politicians about when, how or even if the divorce should take place.
The Conservatives had been bracing for big losses in Thursday’s elections - something that could revive calls for May to step down and for a change in Brexit policy. “We’ve seen gains in both Remain and Leave areas, with huge swings to us in both former Conservative and Labour seats,” Luisa Porritt, a LibDem councillor, told Reuters.
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