LONDON, May 8 —A lawmaker in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party defected to the opposition Labour Party today, the second to do so in less than two weeks,...
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Sunak’s Conservatives are trailing Labour by about 20 points in opinion polls ahead of a national election expected this year, and the party suffered heavy losses in local elections last week. Elphicke is the third Conservative lawmaker to defect to Labour since the last election in 2019. Christian Wakeford switched in 2022 over former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s conduct around rule-breaking parties during Covid-19 lockdowns.Dan Poulter, a former health minister, defected to Labour last month saying the government’s record on the state-run National Health Service - one of Sunak’s five priorities for the country - meant he could no longer represent the Conservatives.
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