The British Lawmakers Stuck in Limbo—And Brussels
The political turmoil in London has meant that British members of the European Parliament don’t know whether they will be participating in an election due to happen next month.
With her time representing the United Kingdom in the European Parliament coming to a close, Jean Lambert was packing up her Brussels office.
Piles of books, folders, and boxes stacked around the room served as a testament to the nearly two decades she spent serving Londoners as one of their three Green Party representatives in Brussels and Strasbourg, France, where the European Parliament sits. With Britain leaving the European Union, British representation in EU institutions would no longer be required, and Lambert, along with 72 of her British colleagues, would soon be out of a job.
But Britain hasn’t
