Senior figures in Change UK have publicly clashed over the party’s tactics after it failed to return a single MEP in the European elections. The party, which was formed as the Independent Group by breakaway Tory and Labour MPs in February, had a disastrous result, securing less than 4 per cent of the vote despite a big launch and several well-known candidates. After the result Anna Soubry, the new party’s spokeswoman on Brexit, accused Heidi Allen, its interim leader, of “bizarre” behaviour for suggesting that their supporters should engage in tactical voting. Ms Soubry, the former Tory business minister, said that “over 600,000 people went and voted for us, a genuinely new party”, which she claimed was an “extremely good” result. She also told BBC…

Source: The Times May 28, 2019 00:06 UTC