Eleven British lawmakers who have joined new political party ‘The Independent Group’ pose for a photograph after a press conference in Westminster in London, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. Cracks in Britain’s political party system yawned wider Wednesday, as three pro-European lawmakers – Soubry, Allen and Wollaston – quit the governing Conservatives to join a newly formed centrist group of independents who are opposed to the government’s plan for Britain’s departure from the European Union. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)