May's Conservatives Face Big Losses in U.K. Local Elections

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party faces big losses in local elections on Thursday as voters register a protest against her handling of Brexit.More than 8,000 council seats are up for grabs in mainly rural parts of England.Not all local votes are held at the same time, and this year’s batch are predominantly Conservative-held, making it “target practice on Tory territory,” according to Robert Hayward, a Tory lord known for his electoral number-crunching.