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Former Conservative MP Sam Gyimah has Democrats the liberal.

have Six MPs, The Party which in The Last few weeks, including the former Tory MP Philip Lee, and ex-Labour MPs Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna .

Mr Gyimah was one of the 21 Tories, had removed the Conservative whip, after the prevent against Boris Johnson in an attempt to that a no-Escape deal.

Last December, The East Surrey MP to finish, the science and universities minister in a row over Theresa May , the Brexit business.

The 43-year-old short was in the race to become the Conservative Party May terminate the chief to the woman.

The Lib Dems currently have 18 members, with a tailwind shrinkage due to the victory at the and the customer.

Mr Gyimah told Bbc News that "the hard Brexiteers have won in the Conservative Party - it is a hard Brexit " - party.

"It is easy enough for a Conservative Like Me ," he said, explaining his decision for the Liberal Democrats .

"fight If I want to for the values for which I went to in the policy. the values of the tolerance, the values of the sensible and pragmatic and act in the interest of the Country , then the Liberal Democrats , where I can. "

Not long ago, in Westminster, if you were on The Hunt for a smile, you would not Dems the trouble with the Lib.

There were not many, for starters, and those who were left of The Last survivors of a near Apocalypse for The Party , shriveled, ignored and Drowned Out .

Not any more.

they are bouncy, tiggerish and expanded.

you hope that your clarity on Brexit - win an election, and scrap it - is the favor of Stay-inclined voters, Labour's pitch is rather ambiguous.

But your newcomers face a big challenge: can you realistically win the seats they currently hold in the Liberal Democrats ?

Or you Will go hunting for more fertile Lib dem territory Elsewhere potentially displace long-standing local party-comrades-in-arms?

addressing the liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth, Mr Gyimah said: "It is now no orderly way for the UK to leave the EU, the on 31. October.

"If the Prime Minister got an offer on the European Council on 17. October 18, would it not be possible to leave for us on October 31 in an orderly manner. "

He added that the government was left in a position where "no-deal" is the only result that can be delivered.

he said He was discouraged by the way of the beating process "was framed. to decide for us MPs, our careers, in other words, Our Own salaries, on the implementation of the Country first. "

Mr Gyimah, who has sat as an Independent after the defeat of the Conservative whip, was a prominent advocate for a second referendum.

He previously signalled its intention, as an independent candidate in East Surrey in The Event of a snap General election.

Who is Sam Gyimah is?

Mr Gyimah was born in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire.

When he was Six Years old, his parents separated and he moved with his mother in her home Country , Ghana, while his father remained in the UK.

He attended the Achimota school, a State School in the capital Accra, before returning to the UK to do his GCSEs and A levels at Freman College, a comprehensive in Hertfordshire.

Mr Gyimah went on to win a place at Somerville College, Oxford, to read philosophy, politics and Economics (PPE), and served as President of the Oxford Union in 1997.

An Arsenal fan, he worked for Goldman Sachs for five years as an investment banker before he was in politics, unsuccessfully for the Camden Council elections in 2006.

In 2010, he was the MP for East Surrey, and was in Westminster for two years, when he was made parliamentary Private Secretary to the then PM David Cameron .

He went on to become a government whip in 2013, and childcare and education minister a year later, before he was in the prisons minister in 2016, and the universities minister after that.

The married father-of-two finish universities as a minister in December of last year Theresa May , the Brexit business.

He was introduced to the delegates at the conference, The Party leader Jo Swinson as "the latest Liberal Democrat MP".

Speaking at the conference, Mr Gyimah, said he with the decision for the Liberal Democrats and I had begun to reconsider its position in the Tories, while the lady negotiated Perhaps you are dealing with the EU.

But he said his concerns with the Conservative Party go now, "Escape".

"the values that we have taken for granted for so long in Our Country . are threatened," Mr Gyimah said. "What is it, Jo and I have spoken, the Liberal Democrats have a unique opportunity to fight, to defend these values and create a new force in British politics. This is the reason why I'm Here Today . "

He said: "the problem is only on the Conservative side. If I see a glance across the aisle at work, the same issue that I've seen on the Conservative side, a doctrinaire, intolerant approach banks, which means that the centrists displaced are".

Mr Gyimah was welcomed by Lib dem MPs.

Mr Umunna tweeted that he was "absolutely thrilled" and Layla Moran said: "Welcome . So excited to have you on The Team ".

Chris White , a former government adviser, told the BBC it was "extremely disappointing", Mr Gyimah join the Lib Dems because he "stood on a Manifesto promise to deliver the referendum, and here he is, the exchange to a party not to do the obvious".

this is A quote from Mr Johnson for a fall Federal election, is so far rejected by some members of Parliament wanted to ensure, first, that a bill designed to avoid a no-became deal Brexit law.

But as The Bill tries to force you to ask Mr. Johnson, for an extension of the deadline, receives Royal Assent , opposition MPs are preparing to start in the General election campaigns.

As a Lib dem conference, Ms Swinson said The Party , the anti-British EU-exit, opened the message should be "clearly" in a General election campaign.

she expressed her hope that the members are leaving again, your proposal of the government scrappage scheme, without a further referendum.

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Source of news: bbc.com