Another great episode of mutiny on the bounty(ny). After Sunak enjoyed several episodes of “me and Ruanda” he is now starring in “Poulter-and are early elections really necessary?”
The real reason though is the NHS. Things got protracted. That means delayed. So, that shouldn’t have come to public consiousness before the elections. But, as always, things quagmired and there it is: Mutiny on the bounty.
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Dr Dan Poulter, the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, who works part-time as a mental health doctor in an NHS hospital, announced he was resigning as a Tory MP and would be taking the Labour whip until the next election in an exclusive interview with the Observer.
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Immediately after Rishi Sunak was claiming success for one of his five pledges, stopping the boats, another - on the NHS - was blowing up in his face.
In a disastrous blow for the Conservatives and a massive propaganda coup for Labour, the consultant psychiatrist Dr Dan Poulter is quitting the Tories and defecting to Sir Keir Starmer's party.