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22 May 2019updated 07 Jun 2021 4:18pm

Heidi Allen offers to quit as Change UK leader

By Patrick Maguire

Will Change UK survive tomorrow’s European elections intact? Listen to Heidi Allen, the party’s interim leader, and it is increasingly difficult to draw that conclusion. She tells Channel 4 News this evening that she offered her resignation after a row over whether the party should endorse tactical voting. 

Allen believes the party should encourage Remain voters to back the Liberal Democrats outside of London and South East, where Change UK are polling strongest and thus stand the best chance of picking up MEPs. 

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