A TORY MP has declared he will support Labour at the next election – claiming Keir Starmer can “bring back optimism into British life”.
Conservative Mark Logan, who is standing down at July’s election, said the party had been on a “journey” and offered “centrist policies”.The ex-Bolton North MP, who was elected in 2019, claimed the Tories were “unrecognisable” from the party he joined 10 years ago.
Logan confessed he had weighed up backing Labour for “quite a long period” but decided to wait until Parliament dissolved to announce the move as he is no longer a sitting MP. “I believe as a politician it's incumbent upon me to be able to say, to look people in the eyes in Bolton and say that I believe that a Labour government is going to serve you better.
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