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Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives' lead over the opposition Labour Party halved to 9 percent in a Survation telephone poll published on Monday, adding to signs that the election race is tightening ahead of the June 8 vote.

LONDON - There are "millions of voters who have been left politically homeless" in Britain today, according to Tony Blair, as they face the choice of "a hard Brexit Tory party and a hard-left Labour Party." In an exclusive interview with Kathimerini at the offices of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in Grosvenor Square, the former British prime minister insists that "if the Labour Par

First results from local elections in Britain released on May 5 showed a strong boost for Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party ahead of next month's Brexit-dominated legislative polls.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair said on May 1 that he was plunging back into domestic politics in order to fight against Brexit. 

Former British prime minister Tony Blair said Monday he was plunging back into domestic politics in order to fight against Brexit, AFP reported.

Blair, who led the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007, will not be standing in the June 8 general election.

Half of Britons back Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives ahead of a snap general election in June, according to a new opinion poll published on April 23.

Polling company ComRes, which conducted the survey for the Sunday Mirror tabloid, said it was the first time the Conservatives had reached the symbolic 50 percent support mark since January 1991.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had declared that he would put Turkey's EU membership process to vote in case the "yes" campaign won the April 16 referendum on Turkey's shift from a parliamentary system to a presidency. Since 51.5 percent of the Turkish people said "yes" last Sunday, now the question is whether Turkey will really part ways with the EU.

“The next General Election should be in 2020.”

The words of Theresa May who has just executed an enormous political reversal.

For months she and her team have played down the prospect of an early poll.

The reasons were simple. They didn’t want to cause instability during Brexit negotiations.

Britain's Theresa May on Tuesday called for snap elections on June 8, catching the country by surprise in a bid to bolster her position before tough talks on leaving the European Union.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the eurozone’s finance ministers, is facing calls to resign after refusing to apologise for saying crisis-hit European countries had wasted their money on “drinks and women”.