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Heidi Allen has joined the Lib Dems – our 7 favourite responses

This time last year, Heidi Allen was a Conservative MP, insisting that she would uphold the 2016 EU referendum result. Since then, she has been part of the Change UK group, sat as a solo Independent, formed an Independent group, and now she’s defected from her own group to the Lib Dems, whose views on Brexit align more closely with her own.

This is how people have reacted to her latest (at the time of writing) political move.

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Comedy writer, James Felton found a somewhat highbrow metaphor for the state of the Liberal Democrats.

Whatever you do, don’t mention Trigger’s broom.

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