May accuses Juncker’s team of trying to sabotage election

Bloomberg

Prime Minister Theresa May struck back at European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, accusing his team of leaking details of their Brexit discussions to sabotage Britain’s election.
Standing outside her 10 Downing Street office — after returning from visiting Queen Elizabeth II to mark the formal start of the campaign — May expressed her fury at seeing a long and unflattering description of her April 26 dinner with Juncker in a German newspaper.
“In the last few days we’ve seen just how difficult these talks are going to be,” she said. “Britain’s negotiating position in Europe has been misrepresented in the continental press. The European Commission’s negotiating stance has hardened. Threats against Britain have been issued by European politicians and officials. All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the general election.”
May signaled that she is now going to present the election as a battle between herself and the European Union’s bureaucrats. She has 20 point lead against her main rival, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party.