“Meanwhile the Labour Party has changed out of all recognition. Since 2019, it has moved on from Jeremy Corbyn and now, under Keir Starmer, occupies the center ground of British politics.”
“[Labour] has accepted Brexit and its economic policies and defense policies are responsible and can be trusted,” Elphicke, who voted for Brexit and backed Boris Johnson, added.
Elphicke is the second Tory MP to defect to Labour in just two weeks, after the former health minister Dan Poulter quit blaming the Conservatives’ move to become a “nationalist party of the right.”
Labour, led by Starmer, holds a commanding lead over the Conservatives in the polls and recently inflicted big losses on Sunak’s party in a raft of local elections.
Elphicke’s defection could prove controversial with some parts of the Labour left.
As MP for Dover, on the English Channel, since 2019, Elphicke has been outspoken about asylum seekers arriving in Britain via small boats across the Channel. She supported the government’s controversial Rwanda plan to permanently deport asylum seekers to the central African country.
