Change UK, a new anti-Brexit party formed by breakaway MPs from Britain’s two main parties, could get votes from EU supporters.
“I see it as a soft referendum,” said Isis Queresma-Cabral, 44, a French citizen in Britain for 19 years and a pro-EU election activist.
At its April 12 campaign launch, he predicted “the biggest slap in the face for the party political system that we’ve had in generations.”The May 23 vote looms with Britain in a deep political crisis over its stalled departure from the European Union after nearly half a century of membership. The government continues to claim hope it could be scrapped if talks with the main opposition Labour Party break the Brexit deadlock.
“New parties have arrived and are eating into the vote share of the old guard, who are struggling to retain much of their support.” Neither of Britain’s two main parties, which have been riven with internal divisions over Brexit, held campaign launch events, opting to release candidate lists quietly online this week.
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