Britain’s governing Conservative Party has taken a battering in European Union elections. Its leader, Prime Minister Theresa May, announced last week that she will soon resign over the backlash to her handling of the country’s exit from the European Union, or Brexit.
May’s inability to convince British lawmakers that a divorce deal she hashed out with European negotiators represented a genuine break from the bloc caused deadlock in London which has seen the date for Britain’s actual departure pushed from March to the end of October this year.
As the U.K. remains a member, three years after the British public voted to leave the EU, the country was forced by EU law to hold elections to send new representatives to the European Parliament.
The election results in Britain have shown battle lines being drawn; parties can no longer tiptoe around the Brexit issue. Britons have spoken with their votes, making it clear they want a firm stance from their next leader.
