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UK PM May's party slumps to fifth place as pressure mounts for her to go
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 13 - 05 - 2019

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives have slumped to fifth place in an opinion poll ahead of the May 23 European parliamentary election as pressure grows for her to set a date for her departure.
Nigel Farage's Brexit Party was in the lead, up four percentage points, on 34 percent while May's Conservative Party had just 10 percent, the YouGov poll for the Times newspaper showed. The opposition Labour Party was down five points on 16 percent.
Two parties which support staying in the EU, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, were on 15 percent and 11 percent respectively.
The collapse in support for the Conservative Party is piling pressure on May to set a date for her departure. Senior Conservatives want May to set out her departure plans this week.
Nearly three years since the United Kingdom voted 52 percent to 48 percent to leave the European Union, there is still no agreement among British politicians about when, how or even if the divorce should take place.
"There is a massive appetite for the Brexit Party right now because people want to live in a democratic country," Farage said. "We have been betrayed, not just by the Conservatives, Labour have done the same thing too."
Britain was due to have left the European Union on March 29, though May has been unable to get her divorce deal approved by parliament so she has turned to the Labour Party, led by socialist Jeremy Corbyn, in a bid to court his support.
Asked if talks with Labour could lead to a possible Brexit consensus, Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said: "I think these talks are very serious, yes, we wouldn't have committed all of the time and effort on sides in relation to this.
"They have been constructive. I very much want to see them concluding positively because ultimately we need to carry a vote in parliament to see that we leave," he told BBC radio.
The new deadline for leaving the EU is Oct. 31 though many Brexit supporters fear that the whole divorce could be derailed.
"We are at real risk of sleepwalking into remaining in the EU," Brexit Secretary Steven Barclay wrote in the Sun newspaper.
"That is why I believe that it would be inexcusable for the Government to not use the coming months to continue to prepare for the real risk we leave the EU without a deal."
He later wrote in Twitter that in a choice between a no deal exit or staying in the EU, he would vote to leave without agreement. — Reuters


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