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the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other. My name is Alex

Doherty and today I'm joined by Phil Burton Cartlidge to discuss the

newly formed independent group. We'll be talking about the politics of the MPs that make up the

new organisation, the role of anti-Semitism in the resignation of the ex-Labour contingent,

and how the labour leadership ought to respond to the creation of the group. As always, you can listen to PTO on SoundCloud, iTunes and ACAST,

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So on Monday, we saw the resignation of seven Labour MPs and the formation of the

independent group, which currently seems to be a sort of holding operation until they form

an actual party.

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