New anti-Brexit party Change UK, formed by breakaway MPs from Britain's two main parties, is targeting votes from EU supporters, as are Vince Cable's Liberal Democratspassions running high, campaigners are hitting Britain’s streets and taking to social media ahead of European elections.
“I see it as a soft referendum,” said Isis Queresma-Cabral a French citizen in Britain for 19-years and a pro-EU election activist. At its April 12 campaign launch, he predicted “the biggest slap in the face for the party political system that we’ve had in generations.” The government continues to claim hope it could be scrapped if talks with the main opposition Labour Party break the Brexit deadlock.
“New parties have arrived and are eating into the vote share of the old guard, who are struggling to retain much of their support.”Change UK, a new anti-Brexit party formed by breakaway MPs from Britain’s two main parties, could get votes from EU supporters. Neither of Britain’s two main parties, which have been riven with internal divisions over Brexit, held campaign launch events, opting to release candidate lists quietly online this week.