Farage’s Brexit Party hit by split a week before UK election Britain is holding a general election a week from now and fractures are emerging within jittery political parties unsure how a volatile electorate will judge themOne week before Britain votes in a national election, fractures were emerging Thursday within jittery political parties unsure how a volatile electorate will judge them. Meanwhile, Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson and main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn both faced criticism of their moral character. Last week, Britain’s Orthodox Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, said that "the very soul of our nation is at stake" in the election. Conservative consolidation of the pro-“leave” vote continued Thursday when four Brexit Party representatives quit the party to sit as independents in the European Parliament. The Brexit Party is not running in 317 Conservative-held seats, but is fielding candidates in about 300 other constituencies.

Source: ABC News December 05, 2019 11:48 UTC