With preliminary results showing significant success for right-wing parties in the elections to the European Parliament, media highlights five key takeaways of the election process in the UK, which is still bracing itself for its withdrawal from the EU.
Despite the ongoing political turmoil in the UK following Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement to step down as PM in June, Britons seem to have confirmed their drive for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, given Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party’s success in the European elections.
Jeremy Corbyn has already pledged that his party would “reflect on these results”, with shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry claiming that her party had taken a “kicking” and should promise a referendum and campaign to stop Brexit.
Obtaining about 9.1 per cent of the vote and just three seats, the Conservative Party came fifth behind the Greens, in what is the party’s worst European election result in its 185-year history.
The Conservatives scored eight per cent in London, and obtained 10 per cent and 11 per cent in the eastern region and the West Midlands, respectively.