Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast in The Times, I'm Matt Chorley.

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as well. The summer break is the perfect time to lie back on the beach, fill the sun in your face

and relax while being told repeatedly that nobody knows what they're doing and the country is going

to the dogs. Talking of people who don't know what they're doing let me introduce

this week's panel Grant Tucker the Times Deputy diary editor on who in their

right mind would want to be PM. Philip Collins times columnist are why

government of national unity is a good idea but won't happen. But first Red Box

columnist Jane Merrick on why she's just left the Labour Party.

So yeah last week I quit the Labour Party. So yeah, last week I quit the Labour Party.

I gave up my party membership on my card,

but I also left it, the party I've supported and voted for all my life.

I left it behind ideologically. Under Jerry Mac Corbyn, its equivocation

on anti-Semitism has become intolerable with its refusal to accept the internationally

recognized definition.

Jane, what made you, given it, it's been a bumpy road, Joey Corbyn's leadership so far, what, particularly

for people who supported the party previously, what was it at this time that made this the straw

that broke the covers back?

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