Three Tories Defect

Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston:

'We no longer feel we can remain in Party of Govt whose policies and priorities are so firmly in grip of the ERG & DUP

'There has been a dismal failure to stand up to the hardline ERG'

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) February 20, 2019

Young Labour Ruled By Diktat

Young Labour National Committee voted on whether the tweet should stay up.

In the interests of transparency, 4 exec members and I voted for the tweet to be deleted. 14 exec members voted in support of the tweet.

If any members would like further information, please let me know. https://t.co/73LlIzOklM

— Miriam Mirwitch (@mrwtch) February 18, 2019

Tories Jumping Ship

Labour breakaway MPs expected to unveil Tory defectors today - one hour before PMQs. Downing St was on high alert over Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston. Now appears Anna Soubry will call it quits too https://t.co/rRvARZaSNa

— steve hawkes (@steve_hawkes) February 20, 2019

The Hatton Era Returns

Neil Kinnock. Labour Conference. Bournemouth. 1985. His words resonated then. They still resonate today. pic.twitter.com/GJZ5RcdgOG

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) February 19, 2019

Hatton's Back

It's official:

As revealed by @HannahAlOthman tonight Derek Hatton is now *back* in Labour Party more than 30 years after he was kicked out for being part of a Trotskyist militant group

Incendiary stuff

Jeremy Corbyn's day is about to get much, much worse... https://t.co/HMbVooqbFz

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) February 18, 2019

Militant/Momentum, they are all the same. Labour was almost destroyed in the 1980's by extremism, it seems intent on destroying itself again.

Whither The Lib Dems?

Spare a thought for the Lib Dems, a centrist party opposed to Brexit that is behind in the polls to an imaginary centrist party that is opposed to Brexit. https://t.co/MkHdLatExc

— Christopher Snowdon (@cjsnowdon) February 18, 2019

The Magnificent Seven

UK MPs Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey quit Labour https://t.co/HXhplLVwro

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) February 18, 2019