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Tory MP Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour over ‘damaged guarantees’ 

One other Tory MP has jumped ship and defected to the Labour Social gathering hitting out on the “damaged guarantees of Rishi Sunak’s drained and chaotic authorities”. 

Natalie Elphicke the MP for Dover issued an announcement simply earlier than Prime Minister’s Questions saying she is quitting the Conservative Social gathering to affix Labour, changing into the second Tory MP to take action in a month. 

It comes after ex-health minister Dan Poulter the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich introduced his dramatic defection to Labour on the finish of April, in anger on the NHS disaster. 

In her defection assertion Elphicke mentioned: “Underneath Rishi Sunak, the Conservatives have turn out to be a byword for incompetence and division. The centre floor has been deserted and key pledges of the 2019 manifesto have been ditched.”

She mentioned of Labour: “Most importantly for me, the fashionable Labour Social gathering appears to be like to the longer term – to constructing a Britain of hope, optimism, alternative and equity.”

In an announcement issued by means of Labour officers, Elphicke mentioned: “After I was elected in 2019, the Conservative Social gathering occupied the centre floor of British politics. The occasion was about constructing the longer term and profiting from the alternatives that lay forward for our nation.

“Since then, many issues have modified. The elected Prime Minister was ousted in a coup led by the unelected Rishi Sunak. Underneath Rishi Sunak, the Conservatives have turn out to be a byword for incompetence and division. The centre floor has been deserted and key pledges of the 2019 manifesto have been ditched.

“In the meantime the Labour Social gathering has modified out of all recognition. Since 2019, it has moved on from Jeremy Corbyn and now, beneath Keir Starmer, occupies the centre floor of British politics. It has accepted Brexit and its financial insurance policies and defence insurance policies are accountable and might be trusted.

“Most importantly for me, the fashionable Labour Social gathering appears to be like to the longer term – to constructing a Britain of hope, optimism, alternative and equity. A Britain everybody might be a part of.”

She went on: “We have to transfer on from the damaged guarantees of Rishi Sunak’s drained and chaotic Authorities. Britain wants a Authorities that may construct a way forward for hope, optimism, alternative and equity. A Britain everybody might be a part of, that may benefit from the alternatives that lie forward. That’s why it’s time for change. Time for a Labour Authorities led by Keir Starmer. The Common Election can not come quickly sufficient.”

(Picture credit score: David Woolfall / UK Parliament)

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