Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis

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Ex-health minister Dan Poulter, who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’

Dr Dan Poulter signing his Labour membership form with Ellie Reeves MP, Labour’s deputy national campaign coordinator on Saturday.Dr Dan Poulter signing his Labour membership form with Ellie Reeves MP, Labour’s deputy national campaign coordinator on Saturday.

He said: “I could not go on as part of that. I have to be able to look my NHS colleagues in the eye, my patients in the eye and my constituents in the eye. And I know that the Conservative government has been failing on the thing I care about most, which is the NHS and its patients.

Poulter was first elected to parliament in 2010 and served as a health minister under Cameron from 2012 to 2015.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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