Three Tory MPs quit to join new Independent Group

Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen teaming up with eight former Labour MPs

New Independent Group
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Three Tory MPs have left the party to join the new Independent Group in protest at the Conservatives’ “shift to the right” following Brexit.

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