Chris Leslie, Luciana Berger, Ann Coffey, Chuka Umunna, Mike Gapes, Angela Smith and Gavin Shuker will sit as a new Independent Group of MPs while planning their next steps.
You need a team to win a match, a crowd to move a mountain and a movement to change the political weather.
“If you think knowledge is expensive, try ignorance.”
While black British men rise through the ranks as athletes, musicians and comedians, the UK is still hesitant to position them as “literary” figures – or public intellectuals.
A smattering of Labour and Tory politicians could join the Independent Group in the coming months.
Even if Labour wasn’t breaking apart, the government just doesn’t have time.
Your guide to the members of the Independent Group.
Beyond the matter of national independence, Scottish politics is far less ideologically polarised.
Four Labour ex-cabinet ministers split to form the Social Democratic Party in 1981—then split again seven years later.
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The Labour splitters describe their not-quite-new party in their own words.
“Not gonna lie, like with this and Brexit, we’re actually fucked.”
