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Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston are also close to joining the Lib Dems

Ed Davey: “Stopping Brexit is my number one priority and I welcome Chuka to our benches as a key player in this fight. He has shown huge courage, and will make a major contribution to the Liberal Democrats.”

Jo Swinson: “I have worked with Chuka on the People's Vote campaign, and I know the passion, intellect, and energy he will bring to our party, and our campaign to stop Brexit.”

Umunna to be unveiled as a Lib Dem at a lunch time press conference

No confirmation yet on where he'll stand – Twickenham, Cheltenham both rumoured

Allen and Wollaston both close to joining

businessinsider.com/chuka-umunna-j…

In Westminster where Chuka Umunna is due to be unveiled as a Lib Dem MP in around 10 minutes. The not so quiet word is that more MPs will soon follow - some maybe as soon as the Sunday papers - and not just former CHUKers.

Lib Dem mayoral candidate Siobhan Benita jokes that she wants Chuka to market her campaign and produce “branding and a really snappy logo”

Cable on Umunna: “A big figure, a big personality and we are really pleased to have him in our ranks”

Umunna’s up: “I’ve never been a particularly tribal person. You can probably tell that from the number or parties I’ve been part of this year... I’m a social democrat with liberal values.”

Umunna on his past criticisms of the Lib Dems: “I’ll be honest, I found it hard to come to terms with the public spending cuts...”

But he says “things have changed” since then and the party is now “anti-austerity”

Umunna says he has a message for social democrat MPs in the Labour Party: “There is a home for you - it is the Liberal Democrats”

Umunna doesn’t commit to standing in Streatham at the next general election

Umunna tells me he would urge the 5 MPs left in Change UK/TIGFC to join the Lib Dems

Cable confirms that the Lib Dems will support a vote of no confidence in the government as a means of stopping no-deal