Top Tory MP Dan Poulter defects to Labour & accuses govt of failing the NHS [Video]

TORY MP and former health minister Dr Dan Poulter has defected to Labour.

The MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich has quit Rishi Sunak‘s party to “focus on his work as a doctor”.

He will take the Labour whip until the general election, when he will not be running again, he told the Observer.

Dr Poulter said the Conservative Party “feels like it has become a nationalist party of the right”, having seen a “rightward drift” since David Cameron‘s premiership.

“The health service has ceased to be an area of priority for the Conservative Party, and that is now showing in the strain on the front line and the deterioration of care for patients,” he said.

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said on …