ANGELA SMITH has become the latest MP to join the Liberal Democrats, marking the end of her disastrous attempt to start a new party after she left Labour in February.

Ms Smith, who has said non-white people have a “funny tinge,” is the third MP to join the Lib Dems in the last week, following in the foot steps of her colleague Luciana Berger and Tory rebel Dr Phillip Lee.

Although both Ms Smith and Ms Berger criticised Labour’s handling of anti-semitism when they quit that party to form Change UK, they appear to have no objection to Dr Lee’s homophobic voting record.

Ms Smith told the Sunday Times that the Liberal Democrats “embrace the diversity and the politics of inclusiveness that we need to see.”

By contrast she called Labour “quasi-Marxist.”

“That does not, for me, represent the sensible, pragmatic politics that I aspire to and that I have always practised,” she said.

Ms Smith is well-known for her support of private water companies.

Another Labour defector, John Mann, resigned as an MP on Saturday night, telling the Jewish Chronicle he wanted to work full-time as the Tory government’s “anti-semitism tsar.”