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.
The SDP analogies are all wrung dry. But nobody has looked at what a more recent insurgency can teach the new outfit.
He and others should resign their seats, and then face their voters if they wish, when they join a new political party – but not before.
The failure of the SDP by no means proves that a new movement of this kind is doomed to failure.
At least four Tory MPs have apparently been placed on defection watch including Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Richard Harrington.
Ten initial thoughts on today’s announcement by Umunna and his colleagues.
“They can’t be the change, because they have become the problem.”
“Labour… is passive in circumstances of international humanitarian distress; is hostile to businesses large and small; and threatens to destabilise the British economy”.
And he says that May’s deal may eventually get through Parliament after all.
At the heart of the disagreement between “People’s Vote” campaigners and the Norway Plus supporters is whether the 2016 result is accepted or not.
How the far left uses a feedback loop to shut down people in the short term – and ideas in the long.
A central theme of the author and former army officer is: “I can’t over-exaggerate how different London is to the rest of the country.”
“It’s very painful for me to say that…the failure to deal with the racism that is anti-semitism is particular and clearly is a problem.”