Seven MPs leave Britain’s Labour Party over Brexit

LONDON (Reuters): Seven Labour lawmakers quit Britain’s main opposition party on Monday over leader Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to Brexit and a row over anti-Semitism, saying Labour had been “hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left.”
With only 39 days until Britain leaves the EU in its biggest foreign and trade policy shift in more than 40 years, divisions over Brexit have fragmented British politics, breaking down traditional party lines and creating new coalitions across the country’s left/right divide.
“This has been a very difficult, painful but necessary decision,” one of the MPs, Luciana Berger, said at a press conference in London. (Agencies)