Labour 30 points ahead in worst poll yet for Sunak as MPs leave party

Some 48 per cent of respondents intend on voting Labour, while 18 per cent would opt for the Conservatives

Natalie Elphicke has already been made accountable for past comments she made defending her ex husband after he was convicted for sexual assault, Labour Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds has said. Ms Elphicke's former husband and predecessor as MP for Dover Charlie Elphicke was convicted in 2020 of sexually assaulting two women and sentenced to two years in prison.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons Asked about those comments, Ms Dodds told Times Radio: 'Of course, this is an incredibly serious issue and there was a judicial process, quite rightly, around that sexual assault. 'There was accountability for Natalie Elphicke in the fact that there was a parliamentary process around this.

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