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Luciana Berger joins the Lib Dems

The former Labour MP Luciana Berger has announced today that she is no longer an independent in parliament and has joined the Liberal Democrats. Berger becomes the party’s sixteenth MP in parliament, and is the second former Labour defector to join the Lib Dems, after Chuka Umunna made the jump this summer.

In an interview with the Evening Standard revealing her decision to join the party, the Wavertree MP said that she was committed to stopping a ‘catastrophic’ no-deal Brexit and later said she had joined ‘the strongest party to stop Brexit, fight for equality and a fairer country.’

Berger resigned from Labour in February this year in protest at the party’s Brexit policies, its handling of anti-Semitism complaints, and because of the personal abuse she received from local activists in her constituency in Liverpool Wavertree.

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