Theresa May fires back at EU leaders
Leaders of the European Union to respond to the British
Prime Minister’s speck after she accused some of the bloc’s leaders in Brussels
of "not wanting Britain to prosper".
While making a speech amid the launching of the Conservative
Party’s general election campaign, the PM submitted that leaks and threats had
been "deliberately timed to affect the result of the general
election".
Even though some leaders within the Council declined to make
any statement regarding the PM’s accusations when Sky News interrogated, some
Members of the European Parliament reacted to Mrs May’s comments on Wednesday
evening.
Mairead McGuinness, vice president of the European
Parliament, warned of the damage such "emotive, electioneering
language" could do to the subsequent negotiations.
"The election that's happening in the UK will of course
impact the current discussions in the UK, and probably here as well, but when
all of this is over there will have to be a settling down and dealing with
reality," she said.
However, Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan said to Sky News
that Mrs May was right to fire back after European Commission President Jean
Claude Juncker said it was a "constructive meeting" then leaked a
different account to a German newspaper.
After being "traduced in a foreign newspaper with the
most grotesque version of events, I think she has every right to feel cross
about it", he said.
Back in Britain, Labour branded Mrs May's move as
"foolish", the Liberal Democrats said it was "desperate and
bizarre" while the pressure group Leave Means Leave welcomed the
"robust position".