Mark Logan made the shock announcement on Thursday and is now thought to be seeking a seat under Sir Keir Starmer's banner.
In a Sky News interview after Tory MP Christian Wakeford defected to Labour in 2022, Mark Logan was asked if he planned to join him. At the time, the Northern Ireland-born MP laughed and replied jokingly: 'I'm not planning to defect - to the Democratic Unionist Party.' Yet two years later, Mr Logan has indeed - like Mr Wakeford, Dan Poulter and Natalie Elphicke in the parliament that has just ended - abandoned the Conservative Party and switched to Labour.
He was born in Ballymena in County Antrim and graduated from Queen's University, Belfast, before doing master's degrees at the London School of Economics and Wadham College, Oxford. Before becoming an MP he was a Foreign Office diplomat at the British Consulate-General in Shanghai. He's fluent in Mandarin and has learned Japanese since being elected in 2019.
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