Election is a Tory power grab, says EU Brexit chief

European parliament’s Brexit coordinator says result will be an irrelevance in BrusselsTheresa May’s claim that she will be strengthened in the Brexit talks by a general election victory has been dismissed as nonsense by the European parliament’s Brexit coordinator, who has condemned the prime minister as a political opportunist.In an outspoken attack, Guy Verhofstadt suggests the prime minister was motivated by party political considerations rather than the national interest i