Voting will get underway in the UK today to elect MEPs to the European parliament. The Netherlands also goes to the polls on Thursday with the 26 other EU member states to follow over the next three days. There are 12 UK regions with candidates from the Brexit Party and Change UK standing for the first time, along with the Conservatives, the Greens, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, Labour and a handful of smaller parties. MEPs in England, Wales and Scotland will be elected via a proportional representation voting system, which takes into account the parties' total share of the vote in each region. It is ... (full story)