Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston arrive at a news conference in London (Image: REUTERS/Simon Dawson)
How tempting it must seem to present themselves as the mirror image of eight former Labour MPs they have joined in the new Independent Group of MPs.
They depict themselves as fleeing from a party that has turned away from mainstream politics and embraced the extremities.
But the comparison simply doesn't stand up.
Under Jeremy Corbyn, Labour genuinely has taken a sharp Leftwards turn.
Its leadership embraces the example of Venezuela, a country brought to its knees by socialist policies.
It is led by someone who has described Hamas as his friends and failed to tackle the anti-Semitism that has led to some of Labour's Jewish MPs, including Luciana Berger, needing police protection from members of her own party.
As for Anna Soubry's charge that the Tories have been seized by a "hard-line, anti-EU awkward squad"... Come off it.
Anna Soubry demands a second vote except where her job is concerned (Image: NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP/Getty)
It is true the parliamentary party has more Leavers than Remainers, but that hardly makes it extreme.
On the contrary, it means Tory MPs reflect the majority view in Britain.
The Three Amigos have never accepted Brexit.
That 52 percent of the population voted for it three years ago they try to explain by making out Leave voters were fooled by lies.
It is a pathetic claim.
The 17.4 million people who voted for Brexit did so after a campaign which made it clear that, in order to make the most of leaving the EU, we would have to leave the single market and customs union.
Without doing that, we would not be able to make our own trade deals or free ourselves from over-bearing EU rules.
If Leave voters didn't understand that in 2016, the Conservatives fought the 2017 general election on a manifesto which promised to leave the single market and customs union and instead negotiate a free trade deal.
Jeremy Corbyn has taken his party leftwards (Image: Getty)
Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen all stood on that manifesto.
Far from having drifted towards the hard-Right, the Conservative party is now more firmly anchored in the centre ground of British politics than at any point in the past half century.
It is not me saying that, it is the independent Manifesto Project, funded by the German Science Foundation, which has analysed Labour and Conservative policies in great detail and compared them
