A Jewish councillor in Barnet has quit the Conservative party and joined the Liberal Democrats, becoming the only Liberal Democrat currently on the council.
Gabriel Rozenberg, who sits as a councillor for Hampstead Garden Suburb ward, announced his decision in a video posted to social media on Friday afternoon.
“I’ve been a local councillor in Barnet for the past five years, and in all that time there’s been a growing disconnect between what we’ve been doing at the local level and what I’ve been seeing happening to the Conservative party at a national level,” Mr Rozenberg, a vocal supporter of the Remain campaign, said.
He told viewers that he had been a member of the Tory party for 20 years, but that “put simply, the Conservative party is not the party I joined.
