Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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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

Labour 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,

but every single person, 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 party. They're all relatively blare-right. They're from the right of the Labour Party.

They're all very pro-e-you. They've all been deeply critical of Jeremy Corbyn's handling of various issues,

whether it's his foreign policy or whether it's handling of anti-Semitism in the party,

which is a real, real issue for these MPs and for a lot of other MPs in the party.

Duncan, what do you think that these defectors think they will achieve with this?

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