The Labour party would emerge as the biggest UK force in the European Parliament in British EU elections, according to new projections which show a surge in support for Nigel Farage’s Brexit party.

Labour would return 19 MEPs to Brussels in an EU election which will need to be held next month if Theresa May cannot pass her Brexit deal through parliament before May 22.

The Tories would be in second with 12 seats, and the Brexit party led by Mr Farage, on 10 MEPs, according to the projections. The UK Independence Party would be in fourth place with nine seats.

The projections are the first time the European Parliament has published new MEP seat forecasts to include the UK. Analysts have warned the estimates for the UK are more unpredictable than most as formal campaigning for the elections has yet to begin in Britain.

An internal poll from the EP, carried out on April 10 and seen by the FT, gave Labour a much bigger lead with 28 MEPs.

The UK’s participation in the elections has been opposed by EU leaders like Guy Verhofstadt, the parliament’s Brexit chief, who think it will import the “poison” of the leave campaign into European politics.

KCNA with the report, naturally the test was overseen by dear leader Kim Jong Un.

• Kim designed it
• Hand built it
• drove the truck to the launch site
• aimed it
• and everything else.

Some news doing the rounds referring to satellite imagery taken last week of North Korea’s main nuclear site.

• “n the past, these specialized railcars appear to have been associated with the movement of radioactive material or reprocessing campaigns.

Winners are grinners! (reprised)

Sorry, should’ve said “re-election” since nobody else is allowed to stand

• China says highly values its friendship with North Korea
• Says willing to push forward its relationship with North Korea

• told his party to push “self-reliance”
• signaling his determination to hold the line in talks with U.S. President Trump
• Kim told Workers’ Party of Korea officials Wednesday that the country should strike at those who thought they could make North Korea surrender through sanctions, without elaborating, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday

North Korea’s ruling party central committee will meet in a plenary session Wednesday.

Winners are grinners.

Korean media, Chosun, with the report

• Large amounts of parts have been sighted at the port
• float docks moved to offshore facilities
• 3000t class submarine capable of mounting a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)

• “This means that the new submarine is under construction and the SLBM experiment is ongoing.”

Trump conjures up an all-in-one tweet

He’s talking up the economy while sounding upbeat on the China and USMCA deals, and at the same time taking a snipe at the Fed labeling the central bank’s actions as “unnecessary and destructive”.

New York Times reporting

Some of Mueller’s investigators have told associates that Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry & that they were more troubling for Trump than Barr indicated.