The Conservative MP Dan Poulter has defected to the Labour party, saying the Conservatives have become a nationalist party of the right and have abandoned compassion and the NHS
Poulter who is a doctor working part-time in an NHS hospital, says that hi experiences on night shifts over the last year in a severely overstretched A&E had been “truly life-changing” and persuaded him to defect to the only party he believes will improve NHS.
The MP has said he’s standing down at the next election, but envisages a role advising the Labour party on its policies on mental health while focusing more on his NHS work.
He told the Observer
“I could not go on as part of that. I have to be able to look my NHS colleagues in the eye, my patients in the eye and my constituents in the eye. And I know that the Conservative government has been failing on the thing I care about most, which is the NHS and its patients.
