were able to achieve what they can really and concretely change in british politics so we heard mike gapes there very strong words from him so apart from symbolic damage to the labor party what else are these seven departing m.p.'s hoping to achieve. well what they really are tackling in the next few weeks is for sure briggs if we have to go muna who is one of the big spokesman of the people's vote campaign which is a cross party campaign so this is the issue that they have been also most frustrated with in the last weeks been a lot of criticism one of the. bag has faced a lot of abuse she's she's a she's a jewish m.p. she's also eight months pregnant and still managing to to form a new party together with other colleagues who are pretty amazing in itself but she had to fight back a lot of what she says anti semitic abuse online a lot of that and those are the two main well criticisms of jeremy corbin's leading of the labor party that this is become very much they say something like a sect and and two left wing and they want to do something that's more centrist and as such reaching out to

iron mike gapes, the member of parliament for ilford south. —— ian mike gapes.w up ina myself labour, to my core. i grew up in a working—class family, in counsel his family in essex. my dad was a postman and trade union branch secretary. my mum worked in a newsagent shop. my parents, my education, the year i spent as a volu nta ry education, the year i spent as a voluntary service overseas teacher in swaziland, before i went to cambridge university, all taught me the importance of fighting racism, poverty and injustice. ijoined the poverty and injustice. i joined the labour poverty and injustice. ijoined the labour party more than 50 years ago in 1968. i've been active at all levels since then. from young socialist branch treasurer, to chair of the national organisation of labour students, and i worked for 15 years in the labour party headquarters, including as head of the international section of the party. and since 1992! have been the party. and since 1992! have been the labour uncooperative member of parliament for ilford south. i am sick labour and co—opera

mike gapes, one of the seven. now time for a look at the weather. there are sharp showers. a mild, breezy day with that mix of sunshine and showers, not too much sunshine and showers, here we are seeing the weather front bringing outbreaks of rain but away from the southeast, sunny spells, scattered showers, heavy across the west of scotland, northern ireland and northwest england where there will some hail and thunder. still reasonably mild, above what we would expect for the time of year. the showers are going to be easing a way through this evening and overnight so the skies are clear and it will bea so the skies are clear and it will be a colder night than we have seen recently, two or three celsius in the towns and cities, a touch of frost in the countryside. a chilly start tomorrow but looking like a decent day for most of us, sunshine through the east but it moves —— migraine moves into the west, temperatures around 11 or 12 celsius at best. hello this is bbc newsroom live. the headlines: seven labour mps announced their resignations from the

upset and hurt people we invite her on the show but you say you know there has to be a sensitivity mike gapes one of the other leavers winters said basically corbin is wrong on russia syria and event as well a lot of the why specifically those. three to make a lifelong labor politician well mike one hundred eighty degrees wrong on all of those actually and there were there was some revelations i think it was last week in relation to the alleged chemical weapons attack in duma. unimpeachable source that suggested that that was indeed stage managed and all jeremy was suggesting in that and indeed in the script whole case and so on the same we'll assess that evidence i mean clearly this is totally unacceptable that polling what happened to the scruples and sublets absolute evidence about who's responsible who's behind it and let's not have any need reactions and as for venezuela of course will look again mark is completely wrong will base because we know why venezuela i mean they've made some wrong turns no doubt about the government i think they would acknowledge that but the reason why venezue

conservatives are extremely strong and one of these politicians one of the labor ones that left mike gapes he's been a member of the labor party homers fifty years is that this is not an this is not an easy decision for those people to leave they almost all certainly know that the come the next general election buildings their seats their political careers are over so this is something that's not very easy for an individual politician to contemplate so this is really when they've run out of time they've run out of patience that they've been willing to contemplate a step i'm very grateful that i'm trying to do that because they're trying to just find try anything essentially the moment to unbroke they stoop to unlock this kind of can and there are more independent group seats in parliament now and then d u p c limit which prop up to resume is a secular but still that doesn't. the arithmetic doesn't mean her government is still not a threshold of menow is full that is because if four more formal conservatives defect to this independent group that means theresa may has no more majority in the

life long euro skeptic organ said he was disappointed by the move one of the departing lawmakers mike gapes had this to say i am sickened that the labor party is now a racist anti semitic policy. i'm furious that the labor leadership is complicit in facilitating brix it which will cause great economic social and political damage to our country let's bring in our correspondent in london. we've got a few unhappy labor party m.p. is a balancing geraldine corben ship seven out of two hundred fifty six is this really going to hurt the labor party much symbolically it's really going to help the labor party those and also other m.p.'s have been openly critical of jeremy corbin's leadership mostly when it comes to greg's and they have accused him of not being really anti the government and having an alternative vision when it comes to the future of the country and the future how the breadth of negotiations should be conducted but also like you've said in the report it's also about anti-semitism there's one m.p. who is jewish has self and she has had repeated abuse online she's eight months pregnant

know dealing with terrorism well just finally on venezuela because one of the reasons given for mike gapes who left the labor bottom of your body and the labor body was saying that coburn is roland syria russia and venezuela. i mean same as mills dad used to run the b.b.c. you'll be watching b.b.c. coverage why do you think suddenly media has is it's just that my dura must go the british government must continue economic warfare against the government is willing well this is you know one of donald trump's objectives to get rid of the venezuelan government but what we've had is america undermining the venezuelan economy by attempting to overthrow the previous president chavez in that the coup in two thousand and two and if you look at the the data now it's interesting that the levels of poverty i mean that the question of size of the economy had a population venezuela risen hato brazil and colombia and yet everything in our media depicts it as a basket case one of the reasons material is still in power is a whole generation grew up under chavez and saw all the launch try and form for the be

but x mps like mike gapes and ann coffey were voting against austerity.that austerity was necessary. we didn't have any opposition to this massive agenda. in 2010, 2012, there was no consensus in 2010, 2012, there was no consensus austerity was necessary. i think it will be tricky for this group. the one thing that unites them is they are all pretty anti brexit and some of the mp5 who joined this group are the real spokespeople for the campaign for a referendum on theresa may's deal. there's a lot that separates them actually. you did see anna soubry yesterday get behind the policies of the coalition government and that won't sit well with some of the labour mps won't sit well with some of the labourmps in the won't sit well with some of the labour mps in the group so it will be difficult but i think the reason why this grouping is important, and actually you can see if you are one of the two main parties feeling very tribal, but if you take a step back and think about where british politics is going, i don't think our two party system is doing well and b

mike gates was also emotional when speaking about he was there for decades. —— gapes. speaking aboutou remember those days, yet they are poisonous, but there was this development caught the boy that did come up very unexpectedly —— called the war and did come up unexpectedly for the british government and that change the whole political seed at the time the whole political seed at the time the stop what michael flicks have ever become prime minister? very interesting question. is jeremy corbyn's chances of kirby prime minister at greater that michael in those days? quite an interesting question too. might smack you have helped did this front—page article -- you have been able to pin down this front—page article. having said that, with no disrespect to him, he is not assured williams or a roy jenkins or a daybed, and that presumes some concern who might otherwise support this. there are no nationally recognised figures. what i think is a really interesting decision is to play bergerfront i think is a really interesting decision is to play berger front and centre. she is not by all acc