Dr Dan Poulter, a working medic, has quit the Tory Party in a blow to Rishi Sunak.
A Tory MP and former health minister has defected to Labour, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said.He will take the Labour whip until the general election, when he will not be running again as the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, he told the Observer.
“The health service has ceased to be an area of priority for the Conservative Party, and that is now showing in the strain on the front line and the deterioration of care for patients,” he said. “As a frontline clinician, he’s seen the damage that 14 years of Conservative government have done to our NHS.
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