In the European elections, the Tories and Labour face competition from a crowd of little parties
to elect members of the European Parliament on May 23rd, something Theresa May had hoped to avoid. The prime minister is embarrassed to be holding anelection two months after the country was supposed to have left the club. What’s more, she knows her Conservative Party is in for a drubbing.
The Tories and Labour face competition from a crowd of little parties, some established, others brand new, motivated by Europhobia or -philia. Nigel Farage has launched the Brexit Party to “start the fightback” against the Remainer establishment. Eleven fed-up Labour and ToryThe Liberal Democrats and Greens are pushing a strong Remain message.The tiddlers’ hopes are high, for two reasons. One is that Britons use European elections to cast protest votes for outsiders.
And whereas most countries operate as a single national constituency, Britain is one of five that divide into regions. Its 12 constituencies elect between three and tens each. In small constituencies the threshold to election is therefore very high. In 2014 the Tories won 17.7% of the vote in the North East, which was not enough to win one of the three seats up for grabs there. The Lib Dems polled 6.9% nationwide, but won only one seat .
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