Here in Britain, the two main parties are being punished by voters for tearing up their Brexit commitments.
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We usually seen them off in Epping Forest. But it is important to deliver on Brexit to avoid grievances being exploited.
The unrebuttable fact is that the Prime Minister is in breach of her word, and that the collapse of trust in the Party threatens to be terminal.
We need MEPs from a party whose commitment is not just informed by the desire to leave but also by a vision of what we should do when we have left.
As the MP for the city seat for twelve years, I suppose I am as good a guide as anyone to the campaign ahead.
Some Ministers think that a Brexit Party win there could shift Labour to back May’s deal. But there’s an issue with timing.
The Partido Popular shifted far enough from the centre to lose votes on its left, while legitimising a competitor to its right.
We are heading towards a 1997-type defeat unless we make fundamental and radical changes to our machinery and to our policies.
We have four hundred or so more responses than last month – and almost exactly the same result.
Will they now seek to appease turbulent voters by rushing her-deal-plus-the-Customs-Union through the Commons?
Could the absence of the Brexit Party explain in part the enormous increase in the number of ‘Others’ being returned?
To date, these elections are raising strategic questions above May’s leadership and Corbyn’s policy – especially over a second referendum.
A Prime Minister might, in the autumn, ask the Queen to prorogue Parliament until the day after exit is legally due on 31 October.