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Politics Unpacked

Labour splits: what now?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley speaks to two MPs who quit the party, plus Ayesha Hazarika on the threat to Labour and Ash Sarkar on how Corbyn should respond.

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0:00.0

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0:44.4

I Curries, subject to availability in most areas. This morning we have all now resigned from the Labour Party.

1:00.0

This has been a very difficult, painful, but necessary decision.

1:07.0

We represent different parts of the country.

1:10.0

We are of different backgrounds. We were born of different generations, but we all share the same values.

1:19.0

From today, we will all sit in Parliament as a new independent group of MPs.

1:27.0

Hello and welcome to yet another special edition of the Red Box

1:34.4

Politics podcast on the Times I'm Matt Surely. Hotfooting it back to Westminster

1:38.8

for my holidays to witness yet another extraordinary day in British politics.

1:43.6

Well, no one could accuse them of rushing into it.

1:46.1

For months, years even, we've been subjected to talk of a labour split.

1:50.1

As journalists, we've listened patiently while Labour MPs bent our ears and confided their fears,

1:54.7

but then refused to do anything about it. Well, now they have, seven of them anyway.

1:59.1

Chucka Moona, Mike Gapes and Coffey, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Luciano Berger and Gavin Schucca took the leap into the unknown, quitting the Labour Party.

2:08.0

They have formed the Snappley titled The Independent Group, which everyone assumes will become a political party at some

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