About a Dozen Lawmakers Just Made Brexit More Complicated
In Brexit Britain, up is down, left is right, and lawmakers who unite to support a new referendum end up making that goal harder to achieve.
LONDON—Among the things that unite the British lawmakers who resigned from the Labour and Conservative parties this week, perhaps the greatest commonality is their shared support for Britain having a second Brexit referendum.
Paradoxically, their departures might have made that goal much harder to achieve.
The walkouts began on Monday with seven Labour MPs, who announced in a their decision to resign en masse within its ranks. By Wednesday, the “gang of seven” became 11, as another Labour lawmaker and three Conservatives joined the so-called Independent Group. Not since the founding of the Social Democratic Party here has either party experienced so many defections.
