UK campaigners gear up for EU vote in shadow of Brexit

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With Brexit passions running high, campaigners are hitting Britain's streets and taking to social media ahead of European elections.

Political parties old and new are gearing up for what has been described as a"zombie" election that was never meant to be held until Britain delayed its scheduled departure from the European Union.The vote could now become a poll on Brexit - three years on from a referendum in which 52 per cent voted to leave the bloc.

Brexiteers are similarly minded, with social worker Richard Harris, 37, joining anti-EU firebrand Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party.At its Apr 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.

She had previously said it would be"unacceptable" to ask Britons to participate in the poll but has been left with little choice. "We have ourselves a phenomenally intriguing contest," wrote Patrick English, a lecturer at the University of Exeter. New anti-Brexit party Change UK, formed by breakaway MPs from Britain's two main parties, is targeting votes from EU supporters, as are Vince Cable's Liberal Democrats.

Some Conservative activists have vowed not to campaign in protest at May's current failure to deliver Brexit - or even to switch allegiance to Farage.

 

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