Sunday Crunch is compiled today by Annabelle Dickson. View in your browser. PRESENTED BY BARCLAYS 6 THINGS TO KNOW 1. HEADING TO THE POLLS: The Conservative and Labour parties are both grappling with internal election agony this weekend ahead of local council elections Thursday and the European election later in May. In Tory land: A poll in the Mail on Sunday suggested 40 percent of Conservative councillors are planning to vote for Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party in the European election in protest at Theresa May’s failure to take Britain out of the EU by March 29. Three-quarters want May to resign. The Sunday Express says the party expects to lose more than 1,000 of the council seats they hold, as “furious” donors are abandoning the party. Expectation management: On Sky’s Sophy Ridge show this morning, new Tory Deputy Chair Helen Whately admitted it was going to be a difficult night for her party on Thursday, saying there was “a lot of anger about.” Tory high-command is telling voters not to blame their local councillors for the “unedifying” mess in Westminster — the assessment of Housing Minister and “compromise” broker Kit Malthouse in the Sunday Telegraph. The Sunday Times reports the Conservative Party board has warned… Read full this story
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