Brexit opposition led three British lawmakers to leave the Conservative Party Wednesday to join an independent movement with seven others who left the Labor Party.
Feb. 20 (UPI) — Opposition to planned exit from the European Union led three British lawmakers to leave the Conservative Party Wednesday to join an independent movement that was started by seven other members who left the Labor Party earlier this week.
Lawmakers Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen in a jointly-signed letter criticized the Brexit plan by Prime Minister Theresa May in their departure from her party.
The letter accused the party of following the conservative, Brexit-supporting European Research Group and Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party.
“We no longer feel we can remain in the party of a government whose policies and priorities are so firmly in the grip of the ERG and DUP,” the letter states.
