Plus: In news elsewhere, a luxury women’s health spa in Belgravia – with annual membership fees of £5,500 – this week blamed Brexit for its closure.
But their deputies look stricken, while the defectors are rejuvenated.
As long as traditional Labour voters stick with the party, opportunities for the Independent Group will be limited.
The long and short of it is: it ought to damage Labour more, but there are dangers for the Tories none the less.
The failure of the SDP by no means proves that a new movement of this kind is doomed to failure.
Ten initial thoughts on today’s announcement by Umunna and his colleagues.
Postmodernism strips the likes of Shamima Begum of personal responsibility and judges her solely by ethnicity, religion and class.
Trashing last Friday’s event is doubtless fun for Conservative commentators, but not the right course at all for the Conservative Party.
Plus: Up, up and away – HS2’s costs. Staying down – LibDem poll ratings. Stuck where they are – Labour’s.
“Yet again her Government has been defeated”.
The Labour leader leads with the collapse of the Government’s contract with Seaborne Freight.
The Prime Minister assured Labour MPs that she will stand up for workers’ rights.
“I don’t think a new Farage Party will be where the votes go.” Plus, Rees-Mogg’s view on Corbyn and May’s letters, and Tusk’s “confused” theology.
It is rarely Brexit that people raise on the doorstep. It is concerns about the NHS; their local school; the difficulties faced by social care, or the rise in violent crime.