Brexit party eyes early breakthrough in Peterborough byelection

Brexit party candidate Mike Greene admits the party’s inexperience is a problem. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PAIf the Brexit party wins the Peterborough byelection, it would return its first MP to Westminster just eight weeks after being formed – a trajectory that took Nigel Farage’s previous party, Ukip, more than two decades. And in a further sign of the fast-shifting fault lines of British politics, while Labour hopes it can retain the seat, the Conservatives, who held it for 1