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Members of Parliament launch European campaign for their new party, Change UK, in Bristol on April 23, 2019 / Adrian DENNIS / AFP

The European campaign was launched on Tuesday 23 April in the United Kingdom, with the new pro-European Change UK party. Unless an agreement on Brexit is reached by May 22, the country will have to vote, a prospect that feeds the calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Theresa May.

With our correspondent in London , Muriel Delcroix

The truce has been short-lived for Theresa May: just back in Downing Street after the Easter holidays, the leader finds herself again and, moreover, in the sights of the brexiters within his own camp.

The Conservatives are furious that the government has engaged in discussions with the Labor opposition party to try to find a compromise on the Brexit deal. They have the support of more than 70 local conservative associations that have just called for an extraordinary meeting. This is to discuss the fate of Theresa May and hold a vote of no confidence against her.

The Prime Minister also hopes to get along with Labor to avoid participating in the European elections at the end of May. But Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn just showered his hopes on Tuesday, April 23, accusing the government of camping on its positions.

European elections therefore seem inevitable and the various parties hurriedly launch their campaigns one after the other .

It was the turn of Change UK on Tuesday, the new Europhile party created by dissidents Tory and Labor and campaigning for a second referendum. Among his candidates is Rachel Johnson, the former minister's sister and archibrexiter Boris Johnson, an astonishing presence reminiscent of how much the Brexit divided the British.

► Debacle announced for the conservative party

While the UK Parliament resumes its work Wednesday, April 24 after the Easter holidays without any solution on the divorce with the European Union in sight, the European elections announce a great debacle for the conservative party of Theresa May.

" You do not want me to come back here with a horde of eurosceptics, " said the very hard brexiter Nigel Farage, a threat made in March 2019 to the European Parliament.

This is what may happen. The eurosceptic thunderbolt has just launched a party, the Brexit Party, which is leading polls, with between 23% and 27%. The party, with a simple and evocative name and barely a few public meetings, finds itself in front of the Labor Party.

The conservatives of Theresa May are also well behind, credited from 15% to 16%, which would be the worst result in their entire history. A score that is to impute entirely to Theresa May, say the Tories.
RFI