Last general election I founded Renew, by standing as an independent candidate in Battersea. My hope for the new party was that moderate MPs would split into a new centre party and oppose Brexit. In three weeks of campaigning I beat the Greens and achieved and won 1,234 votes – a higher vote count than the Lib Dems managed in a third of London seats.
I believed that a break-up of our two paralysed parties of government can overcome our utterly dysfunctional politics: ERG extremists have delivered a Brexit crisis so grave that some of our biggest manufacturers are pulling out. Anti-semitism has made greater in-roads into the state than in any developed country since the holocaust. Now courageous MPs have split from the big two parties to form Change UK – and Renew has joined them. What seemed like a forlorn hope for some is now gaining traction with some of the biggest political figures in the land.
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