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But first... Seven parliamentarians from Britain's Labour Party have announced that they will be leaving their colleagues.

This has been a very difficult, painful, but necessary decision.

They're unhappy with the hard left leanings of the party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

They insist Labor has failed to root out anti-Semitism, and they don't like the party's

position on Brexit. Mr. Corbyn responded on Twitter, saying he was disappointed the group of seven

broke away.

The MPs aren't forming a new party, but they will be separate, calling themselves the independent group.

The main mood in the room was one, a sense of, finally, because this had been coming for a long

time.

Every single person, every, every MP there had been a long-term critical Jeremy Corbyn.

So something like this had been expected for a while.

Our political correspondent, Duncan Robinson, was at the conference where they announced their departure.

The MPs all come from a relatively similar part of the party.

They're all relatively Blair-right.

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