“My flabber is absolutely gasted”
Natalie Elphicke is “one of the last people you’d expect to defect to Labour”, says a flabbergasted Patrick Maguire as the MP for Dover crosses the floor from the Conservatives, citing the government’s “broken promises”. Matt Chorley and Patrick Maguire unpack the action live from PMQs moments after the shock defection.
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Why does Richie always ask Starma questions ? Does the poor little dear not understand the concept of prime ministers questions
Is he going to blame sir keir with scrapping HS2
What we really need is for the next GE to be called, and soon! It would be an insult to zombies to call this a zombie Government!
Two big dinghies arrived in Sussex today
How many Ministers, Junior Ministers, Toddler Ministers and Baby Ministers are there actually in the United Kingdom? About 250? Your government is a joke.
Is little rishi not counting the hundreds of thousands of visa's given to india ????????
I believe it was John Crace, you referred to saying “Rishi Sunak just died on his feet”. After today Rishi Sunak seriously needs to ask the question does he want another 5 months of this. Public and electorate resentment will grow weekly until he calls an election, undoubtedly Oliver Dowden was clearly thinking about “Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”.
Out with the torys.. no food banks..
I think Sunak's Sun_k
He should've called it for the last Thursday in May.
Now it's going to turn into the longest political party death rattle easily in living memory.
Oh whatever ff shambles 😅😅😅 all of them
Worst PM ever
Funny that sunak said new snp😅
Vote Labour to get back all the useless tories. Says it all about our democracy. Who next Cameron?
I shall abstain. There’s nothing to vote for.
I understand she is not standing for Labour at the next election.
Call a ***king G.E Sunak😠
She’s got no soul.DOVER SOLE🐠🐟🐡😂
She's not a Labour person, she's a right-winger through and through. She shouldn't represent Labour at all, even if her defection is a quick win for Starmer.
The tories are are total blight upon this earth!! 😡
What lengths some people will go, to try and stay an MP. Labour should drop her soon, unless Labour are moving to the right of course.
Jumping a sinking ship⛴️
Tories are Toast 😂😂😂😂
The most hated Prime Minister in history.
Our politicians are now so bad
Yeah journos from the times were breifing that khan had lost and they were doing that before a single vote had been counted
14 000 children.
Sunak thinks he could convince the British public when he paid failed asylum seekers £3000 and a plane ticket to Rwanda a day before the election. Then claimed Rwanda was
working. Sunak is a wimp. He's not suitable to be a PM. He needs to deport himself to Rwanda or India
Why can’t England find a decent leader with a last name that is not foreign?
Who’s next Jacob Resse Mogg? 😂
Elphick is from the rabbid right wing turns Labour? No, she's been promised a peerage for her defection! Unbelievable, Starmer will be embracing the politics of Enoch Powell next!!! 😂😂😂
You can have her good luck another version of anna subury
Another rat leaving a sunak tory party. But will labour look after the people or the rich.
Sorry. Elected COALITION? No. Labour will have a monumental majority. The Tories will be lucky not to be wiped out as a party completely. Although that would be nice. The Tories are not fit to be opposition, so they need so few seats left as to be behind the Lib Dems, the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Unionists. Vote tactically and it will be done.
Defecting means nothing. They’re still a Tory.
She reminds me of Robert Harley, who, from being a Whig and dissenter, turned Tory in the 1690s for the sake of his own political advantage. We will see a lot more Tories defect to Labour, so as to save their skins and jobs before the general election.
Pint sized loser doesn't understand that his party is in terminal decline.. Elphick is awful but she is now our awful and it'll be forgotten in 3 days ..we must win ..Starmer aint Nye Bevin but a winner methinks
It's great that Sunak lost another supporter, but I don't trust anyone's integrity who jumps the boat at the last moments before the elections, especially one that was at far right.
I just wish that all those right-wing opportunists whom Stamer welcomed into labour are not "double agents" that will only sabotage Labour party with their right wing ideology. I mean, it's not like Starmer and his party is very left wing. The way I see it, Tories have moved way further to the right, whereas is now only slightly to the left of the centre if any.
Titanic 2
It's embarrassing all round really. Was she too extreme for Reform I wonder?
More jobs? There's currently approx 500 applicants per low skilled job.
THE NARRATIVE IS TORY RIGHT PUSHING MIGRANTS OFF A CLIFF, NO BODY CARES, MIGRANTS DO THE JOBS ENGLISH PEOPLE DONT WONT TO DO, NOW CLOSING OFF MIGRANTS AND NOBODY DOES THE JOBNS WELL DONE YOU F$$KED UP THE ECONOMYoops caps lock on
How've I managed to live in A time where radio has it's own video shows 😂
If I live to be 100 I will never put a cross next to Conservative again. I’ve learned my lesson.
Sunak is such a spoiled brat 24:20
He wants to defect back to flip flop land
Defects should not be allowed in parliament. Make it an automatic election. Let voters decide if they want this specific individual to represent this specific political party.
When will they realise ,the Country has done with the Tories, wake up and smell the coffee, it's the end of the Road …🫠🫠🤣🤣🤣
I can’t wait for a Labour Party, a hard left government to take control of Britain. They will stop this craziness over immigration. So many of my Muslim brothers and sisters are looking forward to a Labour government also. They are much fairer in the way they treat us Muslims, including us in government, police force and the judiciary.
30 % opinion poll lead months from an election , record local election losses for the Tory’s , 3rd highest ever swing I. A by election from Tory to labour and 2 Tory MP s defecting ftom Tory to labour ….. where has it all gone wrong for labour 🤡