A wave of support for populists and Greens has disrupted centrist parties across the EU. Daniel Boffey considers what it means for the bloc and Brexit. Plus: Julia Kollewe on the world’s first raspberry-picking robot
Nigel Farage’s Brexit party will be sending 29 MEPs to Brussels as, having come out top in the UK’s European elections. It was a vote that only went ahead because of the Conservative government’s failure to agree a withdrawal deal with the EU – a fact that pushed Theresa May’s party into fifth place. Elsewhere in Europe the share of the vote shrunk among major parties of the centre-left and centre-right at the expense of populist parties and the Greens.
Joining Anushka Asthana to discuss it all is the Guardian’s Brussels bureau chief, Daniel Boffey. He describes the scene from the EU parliament building that was temporarily converted into a Eurovision-style results arena.
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