Change: The Independent Group

by Peter Mcnab

In February 2019, five Members of Parliament Ann Coffey, Anna Soubry, Chris Leslie, Joan Ryan, and Mike Gapes left the political parties they had belonged to for decades to form a new party. This book based on hours of interviews charts the process by which each of them came to make such a momentous and life-changing decision.

None of them regrets their actions, and they would do the same again.

"The actions of the five Members of Parliament are a challenge to a party system which instead of protecting against extremism, can become the vehicle for it." – Peter McNab

184 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 12, 2021

Reviews

[Líam P · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a thin book in many ways and it's dangerously close to an Alan Partridge style, "and needless to say I had the last laugh" bunch of congratulatory anecdotes. It's telling that the interviews are double-spaced and 12pt, it's telling that not all ChUK members contribute.

A curious moment in British politics needs something more than this to record exactly what happened - and what could have happened - when the Labour Party came so close to splitting. This trumped-up pamphlet is not it.

[Tom · Rating 1 out of 5]

Worst book I have ever read.