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The group of MPs formally known as Change UK (or was it the Independent Group?)
BLAIRITE-TORY political alliance Change UK has split, just four months after forming.
Six out of 11 Change UK MPs quit yesterday following the party’s dismal results in the European Parliament elections, in which it failed to gain a single seat and lost its deposit in most regions.
High-profile figures including former leader Heidi Allen, Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger walked out, as did Gavin Shuker, Angela Smith and Sarah Wollaston.
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
