Thread by @AdamBienkov

At the Change UK rally in Westminster where Anna Soubry and Chris Leslie are warming up the crowd.

Chris Leslie: “Thank you so much to Anna for giving us inspiration... please join me in showing your appreciation.”

Soubry: “I’m embarrassed now.”

There are about 150 people here.

Chuka Umunna, who is not the leader of Change UK but it’s “spokesperson,” kicks things off with boast that Change UK is now third place in London” in a European elections poll today.

The Brexit party are in second.

Heidi Allen says she is “humbled by the diversity” of Change UK’s European Parliament candidates.

Heidi Allen says the party has made some mistakes since its launch:

“We haven’t got everything right and we won’t. That’s a fact.”

Change UK’s Jan Rostowski: “It’s more than an honour to be here. It’s breathtaking.”

Change UK’s Jessica Simor QC says the Brexit referendum result was based on illegalities and therefore cannot reasonably be honoured.

Simor now telling the audience to read certain EU treaties which she says are impossible to disagree with.

Gavin Esler calls Jeremy Corbyn “the so-called leader of the so-called opposition.”

Gavin Esler says he has called his dog “Farage” as it won’t go out in the rain and makes a mess for other people to clear up.

“We’re not going to buy your crappy fake Ferrari,” says Gavin Esler at the end of an extended metaphor about Nigel Farage.

Chuka introduces “the man known as Iron Mike: Mike Gapes.”

Mike Gapes says Corbyn and his advisers “have never wanted to stop Brexit.”

“It is clear that large and influential parts of the Labour leadership will not oppose Brexit.”

Chuka Umunna says Change UK’s MPs “have done a really difficult thing and left the establishment.”

Anna Soubry says she used to sit on the Conservative benches and “think ‘that Mike Gapes is a real star’.”

Change UK supporter says he wants to “raise the elephant in the room” which is that the party has made a major mistake by not forming a remain alliance with other pro-EU parties.

Umunna: “I’m frustrated as you are with this ridiculous D’Hondt voting system...”

Umunna says Change UK risked breaking electoral law if they formed an alliance with other parties.

Mike Gapes says leaving the Labour Party was like “a great weight off my shoulders.”

Says: “If you want to look happy, do it.”

Anna Soubry refers to Mike Gapes as “The Great Gapes.”

Q+A comes to an end. All the questions were from Change UK supporters, or candidates.

Not a single question taken from journalists.