London: Britain’s Opposition Labour Party suffered a jolt as seven anti-Brexit MPs quit the party in protest against its leader Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to issues including Brexit and anti-Semitism.
MPs Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey held a press conference in London to tell reporters that they would sit as a separate independent group within Parliament. “This morning we have all now resigned from the Labour Party.
This has been a very difficult, painful, but necessary decision,” said Berger, who has been very vocal about anti-semitism within the Labour party. “I cannot remain in the party that I have today come to the sickening conclusion is anti-semitic. I am leaving behind a culture of bullying, bigotry and intimidation,” she said.
These MPs represented different parts of the UK, backgrounds and generations, share same values. “From today, we will sit in Parliament as a new independent group of MPs,” she said. The move marks the biggest split in Labour since a so-called “gang of four” seniors left the party in 1981 to form the Social Democratic Party.
