And Then There Were None: Anti-Brexit Group Disbands After Winning No Seats in Election
The anti-Brexit party The Independent Group For Change, formerly Change UK (CUK), will be disbanded after winning no seats in the 2019 general election.
The anti-Brexit party The Independent Group For Change, formerly Change UK (CUK), will be disbanded after winning no seats in the 2019 general election.
Two candidates for the pro-Remain Change UK (CUK) have resigned just two days after after the party launch over “offensive Twitter posts” about black women, Catholics, and Romanian migrants.
Heidi Allen MP launched the “Remain alliance” Change UK (CUK) party Tuesday, heralding the string of MEP candidates “from every background” including a yoga instructor, a former BBC journalist, and Boris Johnson’s sister.
The Independent Group (TIG) of breakaway, anti-Brexit MPs from the Labour Party and the Tory left have officially registered as a new politcal party, under the moniker Change UK (CUK).
Iraq war architect and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has egged on supporters of a second referendum, including rebels that have walked away from his own party in protest against Jeremy Corbyn’s lukewarm approach to Brexit.
Brexit is inevitable not because people like me – and you, dear reader – wish it to be so. It’s inevitable because as even the most cursory glance at global geopolitical currents will tell you, populism is on the march.
The leader of the ‘Momentum’ party-within-a-party group which supports Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader has acknowledged the “major problem” of anti-Semitism in Labour, citing the sudden surge in party membership under Mr Corbyn as a factor in the emergence of the scandal.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party has suffered its ninth defection in a week over its handling of a series of anti-Semitism scandals, with a Black Country MP walking out Friday.
Former Conservative MP turned Independent Group member Dr Sarah Wollaston wasn’t always a hard-campaigning Europhile remainer — in fact, when she was elected to represent Totnes in 2015 she did so on a notionally Eurosceptic platform, having voted in favour of an EU membership referendum in 2011.
Bland, boring, but looks-great-in-a-suit MP Chuka Umunna wants you to know that this new ‘centrist’/Remainer party he has founded with some other MPs marks a break from “politics as usual.”
Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston have left the Conservative party to join a new centrist grouping formed by breakaway ex-Labour Members of Parliament Wednesday morning, taking the leap less than an hour before Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May is due to face MPs in the Commons.
The former leader of the Labour Friends of Israel group, Enfield North Member of Parliament Joan Ryan has resigned from the Labour party and joined a new group of centrist MPs — the eighth to do so this week.
After seven Members of Parliament quit the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour party Monday citing concerns over his Brexit policy and rampant anti-Semitism, speculation over which other MPs might follow has grown to include Conservative remainers.
Speaking at the launch of the new ‘Independent Group’ of centrist members of Parliament who have now, after much speculation, decided to break away from the Labour Party Chukka Umunna has complained of a broken politics with parties that can’t represent the key political factors of the day.