Tory turncoat Natalie Elphicke and Keir Starmer faced outrage from left and right over their “shameless” political pact. The right-winger abandoned her party to join Labour just seconds before Prime Minister’s questions to land a brutal blow on Rishi Sunak. But the
Lee Anderson has poured cold water on Labour’s refusal to rule out allowing Nigel Farage to join Sir Keir Starmer’s party. The absurd proposition emerged after PMQs, when Sir Keir championed his second Tory MP defection in two weeks. Natalie Elphicke switched
Labour has re-admitted MP Kate Osamor, who was suspended after she used Holocaust Memorial Day to claim Gaza is being subjected to a genocide. Labour has confirmed this afternoon that they have returned the whip to the Edmonton MP, who used the
Natalie Elphicke MP has received scorn for defecting to the Labour just minutes before PMQs in a huge upset for Rishi Sunak. Ms Elphicke’s defection statement slammed Mr Sunak for “failing to keep our borders safe and secure”, accusing him of failing
Rishi Sunak has been rocked by a second Tory MP defecting to Labour, just two minutes before he rose to his feet for PMQs. In a statement this lunchtime, Dover MP Natalie Elphicke said: “Today I announce that I have decided to
Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething is facing a new scandal this morning, over allegations he misled the official Covid Inquiry regarding deleted WhatsApp messages. In a statement to the inquiry at the start of its probe, the now-First Minister said he had
One of Labour’s most senior frontbenchers appeared to infuriate BBC Radio 4 Today’s Mishal Husain this morning after he struggled to list a single proper Labour policy. Following the party’s ditching of their £28billion-a-year for green investment, Labour’s shadow Chief Secretary to
Defiant Rishi Sunak laid down the gauntlet to rebellious MPs to unite over Conservative values as he insisted the result of the general election “isn’t a foregone conclusion”. In a rallying cry to his increasingly fragmented party, the Prime Minister said he
Rishi Sunak has warned Britain could be heading towards a “disaster” with a hung parliament. After last week’s local elections that saw the Conservatives losing hundreds of councillors, the Prime Minister has warned that Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party could end up
One of Labour’s most senior frontbenchers appeared to throw Wes Streeting under a bus this morning over the Shadow Health Secretary’s controversial tweet about the Tories’ London mayoral candidate. Pat McFadden, Labour’s national campaign coordinator, said he disagreed with Mr Streeting’s widely