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Starmer welcomes Natalie Elphicke’s defection to Labour

Labour’s newest MP Natalie Elphicke has been forced to apologise for the role she played in defending her ex-husband both during and after he was imprisoned for sexual assault.

The Tory defector defended her ex-MP spouse, Charlie, after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting two women and jailed for two years.

Ms Elphicke argued he had merely been “attractive, and attracted to, women” and that made him “an easy target for dirty politics and false allegations”. She claimed he had been the victim of a “terrible miscarriage of justice”.

She was then temporarily suspended from the House of Commons and told to apologise in 2021 after being found to have tried to influence a judge presiding over Mr Elphicke’s trial.

In a statement this afternoon, Ms Elphicke said she is sorry for her comments and blamed her actions from 2017 to 2020 on stress.

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