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Anneliese Dodds says she believes Elphicke is a good fit for Labour after criticism from across the political spectrum
Good morning. Defections are supposed to damage the party losing the defector, not the one welcoming them, but almost 24 hours after Natalie Elphicke’s ultra-surprise conversion to the Labour cause, at PMQs yesterday, it is starting to look as thought this might cause more bother for Keir Starmer than for Rishi Sunak. As the Guardian reports, the decision to admit the Boris Johnson-supporting rightwinger has gone down badly with Starmer’s MPs, and presumably with Labour members more widely.
Elphicke’s move is widely seen at Westminster as unprincipled, and it is assumed that her support for her new party is not sincere. For once, the Daily Express has a splash headline that many Labour MPs probably agree with.
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