'Massive blow’ for Rishi Sunak as Conservative MP Dan Poulter defects to Labour 

The rats are jumping from the sinking ship. The Tories are in a death spiral.

Sunak is deaf to what people want, preferring to help foreign companies rather than people in the UK.

Can we just have an election

I'm a doctor and ive worked in the NHS for ten years. it is simply not credible for a current doctor and conservative MP to only have realised, due to a few ED nightshifts as a psychiatry registrar locus, the state of the health of the service, and nation, directly due to him, his leadership, his party. he voted again and again for NHS austerity, and has been directly affiliated with the austerity party for >2 decades. this is too little, too late. shame on him.

Dead Party Walking

Sunak is a businessman principally concerned with money. Anything else is a distraction for him.

Nothing has gone well for the Tories. More people are turning against them and their oppressors. Shame on this vile evil cruel government.

I find all this ship jumping concerning its clearly not about politics but saving ones own skin

Sunak has a good week? Well he has been out of the country for most of it

Very successful week? Call the elections.

Sunak is an High Elite of the Banker System, I worked to establish poverty & austerity on the land. Sunak is working for the High Elite ruling the world not for the British people.

Why doesn't this government we pay for actually do something for the people of this country for once

WE WANTED AN ELECTION YESTERDAY LET ALONE TODAY!! We don’t want him! How on earth is this democracy? The more he’s in power the worse the country gets 😤🤬🙄

Mps are pretty useless bunch anyhow.

Can we just have an election!

They're all snakes. New government needed all round. Out with the old and in with the new.

Successful week, the country is dead !

Get them out!!!

From Coservative to Labour. Frying pan and fire comes to mind.

WELL they can NEVER go more than four days without another crisis. How much more do they think we can stand!.

Puzzler...why is an MP who is elected as a Tory , just decided to become a labour MP. Why not have a by election to decide if that what the electors want.

Both Tories and Labour can't do anything meaningful to save our country

Just goes to show that there is no difference between the Tories and Labour.

How can he become a labour mp without him handing his notice in to the conservatives when the public has not voted him in ?

Jumping parties in any seat should trigger an automatic by-election.

Rat, jumping and ship springs to mind.

Get him out now….

zero seat! zero seats! zero seats!

Doesn’t this just prove they are in it for the money. How can anyone committed to one set of politics suddenly decide to represent the opposition. Clearly not possessing one political principle between them. Career politicians because it pays so well.😂😂

He just want's to keep his cushy job and the mega bucks it pays out . Sinking ship and rats come to mind.

Torries hates there own people

The pest control is working 💪

An mp shouldn't be able to jump to another party, the electorate didn't vote for that

Why can't we have the general election at the same as the local ones, wouldnt it save much needed money?

Labour, you kidding me

The best possible week for them? but not for the country, as we remain in recession food prices still rising and the shock of another one leaving the sinking ship says more of what type of people we vote for with little or no loyalty shown to his party so how much do they have for this country and her people, selfservers one and all.

The tories are running out of ideas and on borrowed time,14 years is long enough. Time for change!

Simply moving across the floor to the other socialist side of the house.

How does a Tory defect to Labour unless the Tories and Labour aren’t that different…..

Rishi?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

TORIES ARE FINISHED NOW WE NEED LABOUR FINISHED. REFORM NEEDED ASAP

Makes no difference... he's just going to a different wing of the Uniparty.

Yuk Dan Poulter what does Labour want with him

The event horizon is fast approaching the CONS, never to be seen again!!!

If he believes Labour will di better glad he is not my doctor

This shows why we need to vote for Reform! You can no longer tell the difference between Labour and the Tories.

Can't our PM find some trousers that fit, he looks like Norman Wisdom

Get him out

Basically the same party.

He’s Well insulated. Doesn’t feel the cold and could fry an egg on top of his head.

He's a coward

Just shows you how aligned labour and conservative are. Straggling the fence party.

We need a really good journalist to report on the NHS, they could call call it 'Behind the NHS Walls' they'd find some home truths about this organisation and how the Tories has brought it to its knees.

You can bet he is a Remainer!

The sad thing is Labour accepts, people who jump sinking ship 🤫

So much for politicians with principles!

I am voting Labour because he's trying to get disabled people in work he's gone too far

People are absolutely mental if the vote for labour or conservative. David Kurten Heritage Party We are now in our fourth year since we launched as a party in autumn 2020. This is a vital year for us as there is likely to be a General Election at the end of 2024. We will also be contending local elections in England and the London Assembly election next May. In the UK, the old political parties continue to work in lockstep together to allow perverse materials into classrooms for Relationships and Sexuality Education, permit open borders with unprecedented levels of both illegal and legal immigration, and make war on motorists with increasingly onerous restrictions on travel for ordinary citizens such as LTNs, 15-minute cities and the ULEZ. The Heritage Party is the only UK-wide party that will end the climate emergency hoax and lift all restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions. We will ensure that people can continue to buy and use petrol and diesel cars and keep gas boilers in their homes. We will repeal regulations that require homes to have SMART meters and meet impossible new building emissions criteria, designed to force the abandonment of older buildings that are a precious part of our heritage. We will introduce a Child Protection Bill to protect children from propaganda that attempts to confuse them with gender ideology or groom them into early sexual activity. We will also control our borders by pushing illegal boats back across the Channel and introducing strict caps on student and work visas while ensuring we train enough young British people to do the jobs that need to be done in this country. I Edward say that if anyone votes Lib/Lab/ Con or any other left wing parties they need their head examined. Heritage could, with your help make Britain great again. Anyone who votes labour or tory or any other left wing party need their head examined

People claiming we ‘should help our own’ and then vote Tory 🤦🏽 idiots.

It’s hilarious how many angry Tory voters are saying he’s only done this to keep his seat… despite the fact he’s already declared he’s stepping down at the next GE. Then again, facts and logic rarely figure for the current Tory base🤦🏻‍♂️

So never a true conservative then? Just changing his tie colour within the uniparty. Get the lot of them out and SAVE OUR COUNTRY!!!

Should not be allowed it makes your vote useless.

Tories lose another MP, hardly surprising news lately, the shock will be when we go a week without one jumping ship. 😂

Serves him right

Vote Reform!

I would not vote for either Labour nor Conservative

Lol, massive blow. Ask a thousand people if they had heard of Dan Poulter before today, one person might have.

Not to mention the many who have stood down many months ago.

VOTE REFORM TO STOP THE NONSENSE - HOW BROKEN DOES BRITAIN NEED TO BECOME BEFORE ANYTHING GETS DONE?

Poor Sunak. He doesnt deserve this! He is always doing things for the good of the people of the Uk, rather than himself and his friends. Like that time he. You know that time when. Pff, I got no idea.

We need to get this snake Sunak out. Starmer is no better.

Tories have drifted so far left this is now possible.

😂😂😂😂 fancy leaving the Conservative Party to join labour. What a waste of time.

Sorry to note Rishi Sunak doesn't represent the very sizeable voter base who previously voted for the Tory Party. Mortgage payments for millions have virtually doubled since he came to No 10. Gone up 100pc!All Mr Sunak was consoling us was the inflation rate coming down 2pc.

ZERO SEATS!!!

Not a bad move, a very bad move. he has gone from a very bad party to an even worse one. What is this man thinking of?

Fabricants syrup had defected to Labour.

Successful week? Don't make me laugh! You set a very low bar! 🤣

Shouldn’t be allowed to defect. He knows the tories are going to lose so jumps across to the other side just to keep his job. Just shows the level so called mps will stoop to. All on the basis of a few night shifts in A&E. it’s been in a state for years no just the last 6 months.

Vote Reform

The tory party is on life support.

He only done that because he thinks has more chance of keeping seat with labour 🐍

Rishi is loaded, why doesn’t he have made to measure suits?

LOL the way Larry the CAT just ran into the house was so funny n cute 😂 🐈 😊 @ 1:57sec

An NHS doctor that became a Tory MP. Baffling!

Get lost Sunak we have had enough if your lies

Treachorous cant joined Labour? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

No mp should be allowed to go to join another party only go as a independent member till next election

I always think that when an MP jumps ship to the opposition party just before an election he is not only disloyal but feathering his own nest moving to the party he thinks will win. He has had plenty of time to move well before the elections but I guess he wanted to see how Labour would fare in the polls before he jumped. Serve him right if Reform wins!

All the main parties are an embarrassment hence the swing to the centre right Reform for me

I would be more impressed if Poulter had spoken out before the Tories were within a death spiral and before a general election was imminent. Labour should seriously consider whether Poulter or their own candidate is the guy to choose at the next election.

One spot moves from one arsecheek to the other. So what. It’s still a spot. Both cheeks need to be kicked at the GE.

Poulter is also a hospital doctor. I doubt that Sunak's speech at the Centre for Social Justice a few days ago scored any points with Poulter. By the way, CSJ is one of those think thanks that refuses to reveal who its funders are.

The Tories are lucky we aren't French !

Can we have an election before he sends all the nhs money to Ukraine

when will people realise all mps are the same pigs at the same trough. we need a new party

What’s the big deal about a conservative MP moving to Conservative Party 2.0 What kind of news is this 😂😂😂

Defects to labour! Really? He neednt have bothered

Call a general election FFS

Well, if Tory MP’s aren’t conservative, what do you expect?