"There was something particularly moving — and shocking — about watching the heavily pregnant Jewish MP Luciana Berger announce that she was leaving Labour because she was "embarrassed and ashamed" to be a member of a party that she had concluded was "institutionally antisemitic". This brave politician has been the subject of appalling abuse from the hard left, culminating in the attempt to deselect her weeks before giving birth. Labour is supposed to be the party of equality, fairness and human rights yet one of its most high-profile Jewish women has been hounded out by racists and the leader and his supporters do not care."
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The Independent Group (later Change UK) was founded on 18 February 2019 by seven (former) Labour MPs, who were soon joined by four more MPs, including three (former) Conservatives. It was dissolved in December 2019 after the MPs failed to retain their seats in the general election.
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