UK Conservatives look for Brexit compromise after local poll losses

Britain’s governing Conservatives need to be open to compromise with the opposition Labour Party in order to deliver Brexit following heavy losses in Thursday’s local elections, health minister Matt Hancock said on Saturday. 

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives lost 1,332 seats on local councils that were up for re-election and Labour, which would typically aim to gain hundreds of seats in a mid-term vote, instead lost 81.

Many voters expressed frustration at May’s failure to have taken Britain out of the European Union, almost three years after the country decided to leave in a referendum.

“We need to be listening to these results