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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Nicola Bartlett & Liam Thorp

Change UK to SPLIT UP four months after MPs formed new party

Change UK are splitting up - just four months after the breakaway 11 MPs formed a new party.

They included Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger.

It came on the back of dismal European election results for the party when it failed to pick up a single MEP and has since trailed as low as 1%.

The Mirror understands six MPs will return to being Independents but five plan to stay as part of Change UK.

There was a suggestion the breakaway MPs could join the  Liberal Democrats  who soared into second place in the European poll as the leading Remain party while Change UK languished in eighth place on 3.4%.

The group is meeting this afternoon to discuss their future.

Labour MP Chuka Umunna was one of a number of MPs to resign from Labour (PA)

It has been beset by disagreements over strategy including a spat over a pro-Remain pact for the European elections.

Interim leader Heidi Allen hinted at a possible merger with the Liberal Democrats after the poll, saying: “I think we are sensible enough to know we can’t do it on our own.

“Do we all agree that the long goal is something centrist together? Then, yes, we are all on that same path.”

But sources suggest there are no plans to do so at this point

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