Dr Dan Poulter, a working medic, has quit Rishi Sunak’s party after saying it is 'failing' the health service, adding 'the NHS deserves better'.
A Tory MP and former health minister has defected to Labour in protest against the Conservative's “rightward drift” and neglect of the NHS, in a blow to the prime minister.He will take the Labour whip until the general election but will not be running again as the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, he wrote in the Observer.
As you know, alongside my work as an MP for the past 14 years, I have always worked as an NHS hospital doctor. Throughout the ongoing junior doctors strike, I have spent more than twenty night-shifts, over the last year or so, working as a mental health doctor in a busy Hospital A&E Department. It has been a truly life changing experience.
It is this that has led me to resign from the Conservative Party to focus on my work as a doctor and, at the same time, I will be supporting the Labour Party to deliver a better NHS. Regrettably, I have come to the conclusion that only the Labour Party has the trust and the will to restore a failing health service which is currently unable to deliver the care patients need and deserve.
Naturally, I shall continue, as diligently as I always have done, to serve my constituents until the next election, although in the interim I will not be sitting on the Government benches in the House of Commons.In leaving the Conservative Party at this juncture, I wish you personally all the very best for the future, and hope that you will understand the reasons for my decision.
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