I believed Change UK was going to be the fresh face of politics that society was crying out for and created the The Independent Group Activists Network, a grassroots national group supporting TIG because I believed in the power of ordinary people to help make that happen. I was wrong.

Before The Independent Group came into being, like so many, I had felt politically homeless for years.

Having been a Labour member and activist for eight years I had grown exhausted from seeing Labour implode under Jeremy Corbyn, a leader whose political and personal history meant that he is unfit to be prime minister.

It is a party infested with antisemitism from top to bottom, where criticism of the status quo risks you being made