Corbyn in talks to form new parliamentary group with four pro-Palestine independents
JEREMY CORBYN and four other pro-Palestine independent MPs could form a new parliamentary group.
The former Labour leader, Shockat Adam, Ayoub Khan, Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed have been exploring options on how they can affect policy more effectively.
Mr Adam, who unseated Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth to become MP for Leicester South, told the BBC that the group was “looking at options that would give us more access to the levers of power.”
The potential grouping of five independents would equal the number of Reform UK MPs and outnumber the Greens.
Last month they vowed to work with seven Labour MPs who had their party whip suspended for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap to offer a “real alternative.”
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It is thought there has so far been no formal co-ordination between independent MPs and suspended Labour MPs.
Becoming an official group in Parliament would increase the independents’ chances of taking part in debates and committees, which are usually decided proportional to party size.
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