LONDON—Seven Labour lawmakers quit the party on Feb. 18 over leader Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to Brexit and a failure to tackle anti-Semitism, saying Britain’s main opposition party had been “hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left.”
In a direct challenge to Corbyn, the seven centrist MPs said they were courting others from across parliament to join their group, saying “enough is enough” in keeping silent over their doubts about the Labour leader’s fitness for office.
