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7 MPs walk out of Labour Party

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Britain's Opposition Labour Party suffered a jolt as seven anti-Brexit MPs quit the party in protest against its leader Jeremy Corbyn's approach to issues including Brexit and anti-Semitism.

MPs Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey held a press conference in London to tell reporters that they would sit as a separate independen­t group within Parliament. "This morning we have all now resigned from the Labour Party. This has been a very difficult, painful, but necessary decision," said Berger, who has been very vocal about anti-semitism within the Labour party. "I cannot remain in the party that I have today come to the sickening conclusion is anti-semitic. I am leaving behind a culture of bullying, bigotry and intimidati­on," she said.

These MPs represente­d different parts of the UK, background­s and generation­s, share same values. "From today, we will sit in Parliament as a new independen­t group of MPs," she said. The move marks the biggest split in Labour since a so-called "gang of four" seniors left the party in 1981 to form the Social Democratic Party.

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