‘Politics isn’t going to wait for you’: has Change UK missed its moment?
Fighting an election sooner than intended, it is struggling in the polls – but Chuka Umunna insists the new party is on the up
When Chuka Umunna and his six Labour colleagues dramatically resigned from their party in early February, Umunna said he intended to move quickly and form a new party by the end of the year. But like so many ideas that have been formed around the Brexit process, that plan had to change even faster than intended.
When Theresa May conceded that an extension to the Brexit process would require British participation in European elections, Umunna and his fellow MPs found themselves needing to set up a new party, Change UK, in just two days.