UK: Tory MP and ex-health minister Dan Poulter's defection to Labour piles pressure on PM

Tory MP and former health minister Dan Poulter says he is defecting to Labour because NHS patients “deserve better” as he urged Rishi Sunak to “call an election now”.

The MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich on Saturday quit the Tory Party saying it is “failing” the health service and that he could no longer “look my NHS colleagues in the eye” as a Conservative.

Dr Poulter’s move is likely to spook already restive Tory MPs and fuel doubts over Mr Sunak’s premiership.

He will take the Labour whip until the general election but will not be running again as the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, he wrote in the Observer.




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