So You Want To Start a New Centre Party?
The drumbeat of Centrism is getting louder, if you can imagine such a thing. Current Lib Dem leader Vince Cable embarrassingly missed a crucial Brexit vote in order, it is claimed, to discuss a possible new party with unknown others. Leading Tory "rebel" Dominic Grieve has put it on the record that he will leave his party if Boris Johnson becomes leader. And Chuka Umunna has warned that the Labour party is at breaking point under Corbyn's leadership in comments widely interpreted as a signal that he is on the way out. It's prudent to take some of these public remarks with a pinch of salt of course. After all, it's the same Dominic Grieve who was conned by Tory whips into voting against his own Brexit amendment . And it's the same Chuka Umunna who said in the wake of the referendum that we should be prepared to sacrifice single market membership in order to curtail freedom of movement rights , before deciding that fighting for the single market was a be