Rishi Sunak was hit with a bombshell today as another Tory defected to Labour. Dover MP Natalie Elphicke announced she was crossing the floor just moments before Mr Sunak faced a bruising PMQs session.
Westminster's latest defection was done with a minimum of theatre. What a peculiar, half-hearted affair it was.
Dover MP Natalie Elphicke announced she was crossing the floor just moments before Rishi Sunak faced a bruising PMQs session Rishi Sunak was next to the Speaker's Chair, saying hello to his troops, when he spotted that familiar face of Mrs Elphicke on the Labour benches. He peered at her a bit, perhaps wondering if he needed to go to Specsavers.
READ MORE: QUENTIN LETTS: With her genius for making things explosive, Suella could sell sparkplugs for a living There was little sense of betrayal on the government side. The news was too fresh, maybe too odd, for that. Natalie Elphicke join Labour? You might as well graft a lemon to a laburnum or mate tapir with turtle - interesting scientific experiment but little likely to work. Even Mickey Rourke's plastic surgeon might hesitate before such a transplant.
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