All World Wide News

Chuka Umunna: I never felt totally comfortable in the Labour party

Exclusive: Streatham MP says decision to breakaway and form TIG, ‘hugely liberating’

Chuka Umunna, who quit Labour last week to form the breakaway Independent Group, has said he never felt “comfortable” in his old party – and found his mixed cultural and class background were “a chain round my neck”.

One of eight Labour MPs who joined the Independent Group (TIG), citing antisemitism and Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of Brexit, the Streatham MP said the decision to leave behind what he called a “culture of fear” in the Labour party had been “hugely liberating”.

Continue reading...

from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2IMU11b

No comments:

Post a Comment

Thanks For Comment We will Contact You With In 24 Hours