Ian Murray was on the brink of defecting Labour for a new rebel party formed by colleagues angry at the party's performance under leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The Edinburgh South MP, who is now the Shadow Scottish Secretary, changed his mind at the last minute but not before he had written and rehearsed a resignation speech.
A photograph of Murray apparently going through his walkout speech in February last year with other Labour MPs, who went on to form the Independent Group in the Commons, emerged in a new book on Labour politics.Murray changed his mind because the prospect of an official Labour candidate contesting his Edinburgh South seat would have split the vote and allowed opposing candidates to win.Every member of Change UK/The.
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