{"id":122887,"date":"2019-06-14T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/change-uk-co-founder-chuka-umunna-joins-the-lib-dems\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:00:42","slug":"change-uk-co-founder-chuka-umunna-joins-the-lib-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/change-uk-co-founder-chuka-umunna-joins-the-lib-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Change UK co-founder Chuka Umunna joins the Lib Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/chuka-umunna-1024x640-57ff781c4bbca-57ff781c683b1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Labour MP Chuka Ummuna has joined the Liberal Democrats just months after helping set up the troubled Independent Group for Change.<\/p>\n<p>The MP for Streatham, who left Change UK recently, was one of a number of politicians who left Labour and the Tories in February in protest at the two main parties handling of Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, Umunna tweeted:<\/p>\n<p>This morning he told the BBC that despite his past criticisms of the Lib Dems for forming a coalition with the Tories, \u201cthings have changed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/revealed-seven-mps-have-resigned-labour-start-new-party\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labour pains: seven MPs resign to start new party<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to end austerity you cannot do that if you are going to sponsor Brexit in the way that the two main parties are doing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Streatham MP, who helped set up Change UK, said he believed there wasnt \u201croom for more than one centre ground option\u201d and that \u201ca good handful\u201d of Conservative and Labour MPs would soon join him in defecting to the Lib Dems.<\/p>\n<p>Change UK has struggled to make an impression with voters since it was founded in February, and failed to win any members of the European Parliament in last months Euro elections.<\/p>\n<p>Former Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Gavin Shuker and Angela Smith joined Umunna in leaving the party earlier this month, along with former Tory MPs Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/change-uk-switches-name-for-third-time-after-clash-with-petition-site\/&lt;\/br&gt;&lt;a href=https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/change-uk-founder-chuka-umunna-joins-the-lib-dems\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=change-uk-founder-chuka-umunna-joins-the-lib-dems&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read More \u2013 Source&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;_[contf]_[contfnew]_        &lt;img src=\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CityAM<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Labour MP Chuka Ummuna has joined the Liberal Democrats just months after helping set up the ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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