Labour MP defects to Lib Dems over Iraq (Blair ally defects)

[wookie294]

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor

26 April 2005

A prominent Labour politician will announce today that he is defecting to the Liberal Democrats in protest at Tony Blair's "lies" over Iraq.

The defection of Brian Sedgemore, who is standing down after 27 years as a Labour MP, threatens to upset Mr Blair's apparently unstoppable campaign for a historic third term.

Declaring that "enough is enough", Mr Sedgemore also reveals that a small group of unnamed fellow MPs who are standing down are secretly planning to leave the Labour Party in protest at Mr Blair's leadership after the election.

His decision to defect will intensify the escalating row over the legality of the war which was yesterday thrust to the centre of the election campaign.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=633082

[Dover]

1. Abandon ship!!! Are you paying attention progressive Dems and

moderate GOP????

[countmyvote4real]

2. Good for the MP and his country.

Hello spineless American politicians.

Oh wait. Never mind. Mercans don't do international. They will never get it to "get it."

[Cha]

3. Good for Brian Sedgemore ..

he's acting on his conscience. tony blair is a blight in the history of English PMs.. he had to have known there was no valid reason to go in and bomb Iraq.

[Moderator]

4. dupe...locking