WATCH: Umunna says his party will back a poll on December 9 – if the Withdrawal Bill is dropped

“It refers this issue back to the people so we can end the gridlock in Westminster,” explains Chuka Umunna.

LibDem limits

Brexit has changed much for them, but less than one might think – at least when it comes to their strategic position at Westminster.

Iain Dale: Bracknell, Broadland, Tunbridge Wells, Conservative candidacies and my future. A statement.

Plus: my profound sense of unease at the withdrawal of the whip from 21 Conservative MPs.

Iain Dale: The tragi-comedy of the collapse of Change UK

Plus: Sympathy for the Downing Street SpAds. The case for chemical castration. And: my interviews with the Tory leadership candidates.

Not only is Change UK-TIG unpopular, it is poorly equipped to deal with failure

No strategic judgement, no grassroots depth, no clear command structure, no unifying belief system, and a bunch of fractious personalities make for big trouble.

Where does the Liberal Democrat revival leave Change UK’s cursed campaign?

A lethal combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has seen the Remain wave pass the would-be mould-breakers by.

TIG picks up two MEPs – and walks straight into a left/right argument as a result

It’s the classic small party dilemma – do you accept recruits and defectors, even when they come with baggage?

James Frayne: “Vote for change and Chuka” is laughable. The new party’s candidates come straight out of central casting.

Change UK are not the problem for the Conservatives. Rather, it is their own change narrative is ultimately weak.

Corbyn won’t attend a meeting with Umunna. But here’s who he will meet.

Hamas, Hezbollah, the IRA, Assad, Maduro, dodgy Czech ‘diplomats’, Iranian propagandists….the list goes on.

Chloe Westley: The EU, the Commons – and last week’s votes. The people should fire the MPs who won’t follow their instructions.

I believe that the actions of politicians over the last two years have seriously weakened trust in the system.

The Independent Group. A problem for the Conservatives but a danger for Labour.

Tory difficulties are bound up with Brexit. Labour’s stretch wider, and are part of wider ones for social democratic and democratic socialist parties.

Can Labour out-Europhile The Independent Group with this second referendum pledge?

It rarely worked for the Conservatives when they tried to out-UKIP UKIP.

WATCH: Gardiner says Umunna quit because “he knew he could never be the leader of the Labour Party”

The Labour spokesman also calls his former colleague out for not offering the people of Streatham a ‘people’s vote’.

Rachel Wolf: On policy, it’s not the Independent Group that’s driven to the margins. It’s the Conservative Right.

The new group’s platform is not very inspiring. But its biggest problem is it they won’t be very different from the Conservatives’.

Iain Dale: Welcome to the Monster Raving Soubry Party

Plus: In news elsewhere, a luxury women’s health spa in Belgravia – with annual membership fees of £5,500 – this week blamed Brexit for its closure.