Moment Tory MP Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour during PMQs

Mr Speaker can I warmly welcome the new member for black Paul South after the representation that fine town has had recently it’s good to know they’ve got a proper Champion back at can I also warmly welcome the new labor MP for DOA to these benches Mr Speaker if one week a Tor MP who’s also a doctor says the Prime Minister can’t be trusted with the NHS and joins labor and the next week the Tory MP for DOA on the front line of the small boats crisis says the Prime Minister cannot be trusted with our borders and joins labor what is the point of this failed government staggering on

Tory MP Natalie Elphicke has announced her defection to Labour in a statement released moments before Rishi Sunak stood up for Prime Minister’s Questions.

Ms Elphicke said she had left because the country needs to “move on from the broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic Government”.

In a statement, the MP for Dover said she was angry that Boris Johnson had been “ousted” by the party and that under Mr Sunak, the Tories had become a “byword for incompetence and division”.

A spokesman for the Labour Party said Ms Elphicke would be stepping down at the election and that the already-selected candidate in Dover, Mike Tapp, would still stand for the party.

Ms Elphicke sat just behind Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions as the Labour leader came face to face with Mr Sunak.

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35 comments

  4. She doesn't know who to support; turn coats are never to be trusted; even in a Democracy.
    Female Bigot; should find a job out of Political.

  6. Well she is a silly b1tch . No I g from one failing govt to another that will fail us . Does she really think anyone cares

  8. Another rat looking after their own back. She is expecting the Tories to fall in general election so dhe jumps to the party she thinks will win. Disgusting!!

  13. Elphicke is simply looking after Number One. In a few months time, when most of her Tory colleagues are in the dole queue, Elphicke will still be in the Westminster gravy train.

  16. Doesn’t matter what side there on.. They are all two faced infantile ego maniacs… Spineless & totally devoid of any integrity or backbone.

  18. Labour are even more stupid than I thought.  This defection is clearly A TORY PLOT to upset all those on the left of centre of the Labour party.  What this will do is drive more people out of the Labour party and into the bosoms of the Greens, Lib Dems and Independents, thereby DENYING LABOUR OF THE MASSIVE MAJORITY THEY WOULD HAVE GOT OTHERWISE!  A brilliant move by the Brexiteers and Right Wing Conservatives!!!

  21. What a clown Elphicke is. She voted for the tories hire and fire Bill. Then when the P&O ferry workers got fired she tried to join the pickets to show support for the workers.
    However, it does not say much for liebour if that is type of person they will take on board.

  24. For all those wondering, this MP is not wanting re-election and is unhappy with the Tory government. If Labour want a landslide they need to be a broad church of views. I despise her beliefs, but see the political decision made.

  25. It’s irrelevent how short a time there is before the next general election. During a parliament isn’t it bad enough yet alone undemocratic for MP’s to defect to another party that’s different from the party they were representing at their election?

    If Natalie Elphicke was unhappy with the Tory government shouldn’t she have – in proper consultation with her Dover constituency – either resigned her Tory whip, stood as an independent or quit altogether?

    However it’s not rocket science to understand why another right wing Tory MP defects to Starmer’s Labour ‘just like that’.

    All it says is many right wing Tory MP’s regard Starmer, who via the NEC removed the whip from elected Labour party MP’s like Corbyn and Abbott and even removed the Labour membership of an actual elected North Eastern Labour Mayor Sean O’Driscoll, as being a more reliable right wing leader than their own!

    If any MP party defection has to take place at all which would make far more political sense these days it would be Starmer defecting to the Tories via the proper official channels of course.

    The current twenty five odd point lead Labour has over the Tories is not down to Starmer’s alleged ‘changed’ Labour Party and its useless aspirational reformist policies.

    Isn’t it down solely to the rotten decayed state of 14 years of failed Tory government?

  26. What on earth is this hard right Brexitory doing? Don’t get me wrong, the word opportunist is highly appropriate fro many of the 2019 Brexit intake but this is beyond the pale!
    Why is Labour accepting her? Who’s next Lee Anderson?

  30. All school yard crap this is. Look at them all cheering and smirking. Labour are just as bad as the Tories, we will see soon enough. They’re just the best out of a bad bunch

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