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U.K. Votes For European Parliament, Even As Many Long For The Day Outside The EU

As many pro-Brexit voters express nostalgia for an earlier time in the country's history, the governing Conservative Party could face a humiliating defeat in European elections.
Nigel Farage (left, with megaphone), leader of the new Brexit Party, which went into Thursday's European elections ahead in the opinion polls, addresses crowds in Clacton-on-Sea, England, last month. Farage routinely excoriates the European Union in his stump speeches.

British voters are expected to deliver a humiliating defeat to Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party in European Parliament elections on Thursday. Many who want Britain to pull out of the European Union are angry with May, who is under heavy pressure to resign, for failing to deliver on the Brexit referendum result nearly three years ago.

Many Brexit voters are also angry with the EU. At political and campaign events across England, voters in their 50s and 60s often complain about the "bullies in Brussels," who

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