Nigel Farage's threat that the Brexit Party is ready for an election will be put to the test in the Peterborough by-election
took to the stage after his triumph in the European elections, he delivered a warning. “If we don’t leave on October 31st then the scores you’ve seen for the Brexit Party today will be repeated in a general election,” he said. “And we are getting ready for it.” His threat will now be put to the test in Peterborough, a small city in eastern England, which holds a by-election on June 6th.Independence Party , has long struggled under the first-past-the-post system used in Westminster elections.
An attempt by small anti-Brexit parties to select a single Remainer candidate failed to get off the ground. And both the main parties are in bad shape, coming into the vote straight after a hammering in the European election. The Tories are in the unusual position of being unable to tell voters who their candidate will work under in Westminster. Labour has to win back support after the disaster of their last.
The sparse attendance at the debate suggests that voter fatigue may play a role. The vote is the third in quick succession in Peterborough, after local and European elections. As such, the poll will be a big test for Labour, which relied on a surge of enthusiastic new voters last time round, and its new candidate, Lisa Forbes, is an uninspiring trade unionist. The party is unlikely to have a good night on June 6th. But all it wants is to do well enough to hold off the Brexit Party.
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