EDITORIAL: Softer Brexit in voters’ hands as Tory’s poll lead shrinks
British Prime Minister Theresa May must surely be ruing the day she called a snap general election for June 8. With just two days to go, she has to deal with the second terror attack in the UK in just more than two weeks and a sharp slide in support for her Conservative Party. May called the election, so she said, to get a clear statement of support for her government as the one best positioned to lead the UK out of the EU — giving effect to the mandate voters gave her government in the 2016 Brexit referendum. May said it was because some parties were trying to undermine the Brexit process that she has already triggered and in which she seeks a "hard" exit from Europe rather than the softer version many would favour. But most commentators reckoned May was simply trying to capitalise on the huge lead the Tories had in the polls at that stage so as to crush the Labour Party and give her a long, uninterrupted stretch in power. So much for that. The Conservative Party’s lead has narrowe...
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