The Prime Minister is beginning what could be one of the most precarious weeks of his premiership, with local elections on Thursday.
The shock defection of a Tory MP to Labour in anger over the NHS crisis has heaped pressure on Rishi Sunak ahead of what is already expected to be a tough week for the Prime Minister.
Dr Poulter’s move is likely to spook already restive Tory MPs and fuel doubts over Mr Sunak’s premiership. Dr Poulter told the newspaper the Conservative Party “feels like it has become a nationalist party of the right”. Speaking to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Dr Poulter said: “I found it increasingly difficult to look my NHS colleagues in the eye and my patients in the eye and my constituents in the eye with good conscience.
It is the first time a Conservative MP has crossed the floor to Labour since Christian Wakeford did so in 2022.
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