Labour MPs Defect Party Because of Leader's Support For Bush...

First Posted: 03/28/08 03:44 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 12:55 PM ET

The Times Of London:

Almost 40 Labour Party members in the constituency of Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, have defected to the Liberal Democrats because she "sided with George Bush" over the Middle East crisis.

The 37 defectors, made up of party members, ex-councillors and a ward chairman, are the highest-profile losses suffered by the party since the beginning of the Lebanon war.

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