After the dramatic announcement this morning that Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston were quitting the Conservative party to join the newly formed Independent Group, all three sidled over to a press conference in Westminister this afternoon to explain why they had chosen to leave.
In her explanatory speech, People’s Vote backing Anna Soubry sought to draw a clear line in the sand between the Conservatives she joined many years ago and the Brexit supporting party she was leaving today. Citing the attempts of local Tory associations to deselect the likes of Oliver Letwin and Nick Boles, and the Prime Minister’s continued courtship of the ERG to get her Brexit deal through, Soubry declared that:
‘I am not leaving the Conservative Party. It has left us.’
Watch the full speech here:
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