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Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson hopeful other pro-Europeans will follow suit.
Hope Not Hate Campaigns Director, and former Labour Adviser, Matthew McGregor and Ryan Shorthouse, Chief Executive of moderate Tory Think-thank Bright Blue join Arj and Paul to discuss elections, conference season and whether the Lib Dem surge is tangible.
He is the sixth MP to defect to Jo Swinson’s party in the last few months.
Follows former Labour politician Chuka Umunna moving to Jo Swinson's party.
Lib Dem Leadship candidate Jo Swinson joins HuffPost UK's Arj Singh and Paul Waugh to discuss the past week in Westminster, where leadership from both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn was sorely tested.Lib Dem Leadship candidate Jo Swinson joins HuffPost UK's Arj Singh and Paul Waugh to discuss the past week in Westminster, where leadership from both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn was sorely tested. For Johnson, he's refusal to say whether he backed the embattled UK ambassador in a diplomatic row with Donald Trump drew criticism, while for Corbyn a Panorama documentary raised questions of Labour's handling of an anti-Semitism within the party.
The longer this reckless expenditure continues, the more concerned I become, writes Lib Dem MP Layla Moran
"This was careless use of language, meant in electoral sense and in no way literally."
Liberalism is still alive in the UK – but it’s time to wake up and time to turn an inclination into a movement, Lib Dem member Adam Kirby writes
Vince Cable's party on 24%, Brexit Party 22%, Tories and Labour 19%.
67% of Conservative party members backed another party, and Labour lost 41% of membership, says YouGov survey.
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