Natalie Elphicke’s defection to Labour is creating more angst in her new party than in her old one
about defecting to Labour. As luck would have it, I can even share with you an edited transcript of Sir Keir’s side of a recent telephone conversation between the Labour leader and his latest recruit from the Conservative side of the Commons.
Some of it is coming from residual Corbynites and other elements of the left in parliament and the media, for whom this is confirmatory proof that there is no position or person so rightwing that Sir Keir might not throw his arms around them.
As for her politics, she once attacked Marcus Rashford for campaigning for free school meals, one of many reasons to doubt whether she has any genuine affinity with her new party. Whenleft the Conservatives for Labour a couple of weeks ago, the conversion was not wildly implausible. He was a centrist Tory and a doctor specialising in mental health.
Perhaps there was a part of the Labour leader’s brain that was flashing warning lights when he agreed to bring the Elphicke into the room. I thought so when he and his newest MP appeared together for a brief photo-op in his parliamentary office. The body language, especially his, screamed awks. Copulating porcupines look more relaxed than they did.
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