Gang of Eight

In UK politics, the Gang of Eight was a breakaway group of eight Blairite or "soft left", Labour MPs many of whom were prominent Labour politicians, who resigned the Labour whip to join the Libdems in October 2018 in protest to the perceived radicalism of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, as well as the alleged mishandling of antisemitism complaints in the party.

The term Gang of Eight is a reference to the Gang of Four, four moderate Labour politicians who left the party in 1981 to form