Retreating to the extremes on either side would be a mistake
Sir Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons, London, after it was announced she had defected to Labour
And yet it does, from time to time, crop up in British politics. This weekend Andrew Mitchell, the Deputy Foreign Secretary, branded his former colleague Natalie Elphicke a “traitor” It would clearly be counterproductive to walk into a room full of prospective new supporters, call them all names or suggest you wouldn’t touch them with a barge-pole and then expect them to put a cross in your box on polling day.
Elphicke and Dan Poulter who left the Tories for Labour just weeks before and Lee Anderson who joined Reform before that, posed questions about the identity of the Conservatives, what the party stands for and what it wants to achieve as reasons for their departures.
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