Prime Minister Theresa May’s ruling Conservatives are paying the heaviest price at the polls for overseeing the political chaos of the U.K.’s divorce from the European Union. But Labour has also suffered serious set-backs, while the biggest winners so far are the pro-EU Liberal Democrats.With 125 of 248 English councils having declared their results by 1:08 p.m.
Cable also said the U.K. was an “unhappy country” due to the Brexit impasse in both government and Parliament, adding that the Liberal Democrats would continue to push for a second referendum to resolve the issue.Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable said the local election results show the recovery of his party and the return of “three-party politics” in the U.K.
On the doorstep, “people have very categorically said that she is part of the problem,” Patel said. “We need change. I just don’t think we can continue like this. Many of my constituents have said this to me: ‘We need change, we need a change of leadership.’ Perhaps the time has now come for that.”Communities Secretary James Brokenshire told Sky News Brexit was “very firmly” an issue he felt when he was out canvassing in the local elections.
The Tories also lost control of Trafford council in Manchester, where Labour won a majority of seats for the first time since 2003.Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the results weren’t as good as he hoped, and that’s partly because of Brexit. “I fear Labour’s position has been too hesitant and lacking in clarity over the past few months, depressing support among our voters at a time when they expect strength and leadership from my party rather than fudge.”Labour’s economy spokesman John McDonnell demonstrated the fragility of his party’s “constructive ambiguity” on Brexit in two tweets that gave a hint of the problems the party’s candidates in Thursday’s elections had explaining its position on the doorstep.
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