The 11 MPs of Change UK meet today to discuss their new party’s future, or lack thereof.
There are three tendencies within the party: the first thinks they should throw in the towel and join the Liberal Democrats. That tendency, which includes the party’s interim leader Heidi Allen and its spokesperson Chuka Umunna is partly motivated by ideological sympathy with the Liberal Democrats and partly by the strength of the United Kingdom’s traditional third party in their own backyards.
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