May’s Conservatives battle Brexit ballot bloodbath

BRISTOL, United Kingdom: British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives are facing a battering at this month’s European Parliament elections amid the Brexit impasse, presenting their candidates with quite a challenge in the campaign for votes.

With May’s authority hanging by a thread, Brexit postponed, voters fed up and eurosceptics deserting the party in droves, according to opinion polls, Ashley Fox, who leads the Conservatives in the outgoing European Parliament, concedes that this election campaign is “difficult.”