Conservative MP Dan Poulter defects to Labour over NHS crisis

The MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that he made the decision because the Conservatives were no longer focused on public services and were “failing the NHS”.

He also suggested the party no longer valued public services, saying: “The difficulty for the Conservative Party is that the party I was elected into valued public services… it had a compassionate view about supporting the more disadvantaged in society. He also told the newspaper the Conservative Party “feels like it has become a nationalist party of the right”, having seen a “rightward drift” since David Cameron’s premiership.

“Delighted to have his support and look forward to working with him, especially on mental health reform.”

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