Tory MP Natasha Elphicke Defects to Labour

Tory MP Natalie Elphicke has defected to Labour, crossing the floor just moments before Prime Minister Rishi Sunak began taking questions in Parliament. Ms. Elphicke became the second MP to leave the Conservatives for the opposition in just 11 days, following Dr. Dan Poulter who quit the party ahead of the local elections, which saw a large swing to Labour. She won her seat in 2019 after her then husband, Charlie Elphicke, stepped down as MP for the Dover constituency after being charged with sexual assault, for which he was later jailed. Addressing a press conference in Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s parliamentary office, Ms. Elphicke—regarded as being on the right-wing of the Tory party—criticised the “broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic government.”...