“I found it one of the most emotional and depressing moments in politics…Being chucked out for something which I sincerely believed in.”

Outgoing Conservative MP Stephen Hammond tells Matt Chorley about being one of more than 20 Tories thrown out of the party by Boris Johnson for backing Remain, and how they forged an antiBrexit alliance.

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