Labour and Conservatives hope to win back votes for eurosceptic Nigel Farage’s new movement and other smaller parties in European elections
Almost three years since Britain voted narrowly to leave the EU and barely two months after the originally planned departure date, MPs remain at loggerheads over how, when or even whether the country will quit the club it joined in 1973.
But what is clear from a vote which many used as a protest is that Brexit — which forced Prime Minister Theresa May to say she will resign on June 7 after failing to deliver Britain’s departure — risks shattering the election prospects of both the main parties. “If we are courageous and optimistic, we can strike a good bargain with our friends across the Channel, come out well and on time, by October 31.”
The question posed for the Labour Party was a little different. With part of its support bolting to the Brexit Party and part to the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, who support a second Brexit referendum, some felt the pressure to change tack. After May announced on Friday that she was stepping down, many of her would-be successors have said they wanted Brexit with or without a deal, rejecting another public vote.
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