Six or seven MPs got shoved out and started their own Labour For Capitalists party, didn’t they?
I suspect he did try to consolidate power to some degree. But a big chunk of Labour is still Tony Blair’s Party. And the media in the UK is so comically pro-Tory that it hardly matters what Labour leadership does internally. You’ll just get “The ex-Labour ministers who claim Jeromy Corbyn eats babies” headlines for three months and everyone will hate them by election day, regardless.
That was Change UK (abbreviated to CUK lol) who are basically the same as the LibDems. They first ran for European elections and fell flat on their face, winning no seats and 3% of the total vote. The MPs that left Labour all lost their seats in the following GE. Also IIRC thdy left the party between the European elections and the GE, notable one is Chuka Umunna who ended up joining the LibDems. Also change.org threatened to sue them so great idea overall.
