Dan Poulter quits Tories and joins Labour in huge blow for Rishi Sunak | Politics | News [Video]

A Tory MP and former health minister has defected to Labour in a huge blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Dr Dan Poulter, a working medic, has quit Rishi Sunak’s party saying it is “failing” on the NHS.

Dr Poulter detailed his reasons for leaving the Tories in an article for The Observer, while he has also given an interview to the BBC‘s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

The MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich said that Conservatives were no longer focused on public services.

He told the BBC: “I found it increasingly difficult to look my NHS colleagues in the eye, my patients in the eye, and my constituents in the eye with good conscience.

“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. I think the Conservative Party today is in a very different place.”

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