Tory MP and ex-health minister Dan Poulter defects to Labour
by Sophie Wingate
Apr 27, 2024
4 minutes
A Tory MP and former health minister has defected to Labour in protest against the Tories’ “rightward drift” and neglect of the NHS, in a blow to the Prime Minister.
Dr Dan Poulter, a working medic, has quit Rishi Sunak’s party saying it is “failing” the health service and that he could no longer “look my NHS colleagues in the eye” as a Conservative.
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.
I feel that the NHS deserves better than it has at the moment in terms of how
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