@theconversation.com a year ago
Natalie Elphicke defection: Keir Starmer risks feeding the perception that politics is ‘all just a bit of a game’
Natalie Elphicke is the third Conservative MP to defect to Labour since the last election – but the first Tory rightwinger. She had enthusiastically backed Brexit, and was a member of the eurosceptic European Research Group of Conservative MPs. She has attacked Labour’s “softness on immigration” and harshly criticised trade unions. In short,...