Dr Dan Poulter has said he will join Labour until the next election (Picture: PA)
Tory MP Dan Poulter has announced he is quitting the Conservatives and joining Labour.
The former health minister told the Observer the Tories no longer value public services, and says he could no longer ‘look people in the eye’ and stay on as a Conservative.
Dr Poulter, the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, still works part-time as a mental health doctor in an NHS hospital, and said he would take the Labour whip until the next general election before standing down from parliament.
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