If there was one overriding message from voters in last night’s European election it was that when it comes to Brexit a fudge won’t do. The big winners were those parties with the least ambiguous stance to Britain’s future relationship with the European Union. As predicted, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party topped the poll with 31.6 per cent of the vote, exceeding the success of Ukip in 2014 with 27 per cent. However on the other side of the argument the Liberal Democrats and the Greens outperformed expectations, increasing their share of the vote by 13.4 percentage points (to 20 per cent) and 4.2 percentage points (to 12.4 per cent) with almost all the votes counted. Their gains were at the expense of Labour, who were…

Source: The Times May 27, 2019 08:08 UTC