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- In United Kingdom: Parliamentary rejection of May’s plan, May’s survival of a confidence vote, and the Independent Group of breakaway MPs
…had been hijacked by the European Research Group, a faction of right-wing hard-line Brexiters whom the departing MPs accused of acting as a party within the party. Joining together as the Independent Group, these breakaway MPs from both parties began taking steps toward formally constituting a new political party. Meanwhile,…
Read More - In Theresa May: The first meaningful vote, surviving a vote of confidence, and the breakaway Independent Group
…under the influence of the European Research Group’s acting as a self-interested party within the party. Those MPs joined with a group of MPs who had abandoned the Labour Party days earlier to form the so-called Independent Group. Collectively, they began taking steps to form a new political party.
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