Independent MP Heidi Allen hopes to confirm an anti-Brexit alliance of Remain parties working together at the next general election.
Allen predicted that more MPs would quit the Conservatives and Labour and join the growing group of independent MPs. This"independent space" could form the basis of an emergency government, she said."There will be flux from both sides and those MPs are not going to join Change UK or the Lib Dems. We need an independent space in the middle which can respond and possibly form a government of national unity if we need it.
Allen said she first came up with the idea during the European Parliament elections, which saw the anti-Brexit vote split across a number of parties, and her former party Change UK fail to win a seat. "Party-first is what has got us into this mess by creating an opposition that's not fit for a purpose and a prime minister that's been bullied into a corner," the former Conservative MP said.
Allen has asked an ex-Lib Dem official to oversee Unite to Remain's seat-by-seat analysis of which parties should stand aside. She told Business Insider that"geek" Peter Dunphy, the Lib Dems' former head of financial compliance, was crunching election results and polling to work out who should stand aside and where."I am a jigsaw piece in this puzzle.
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