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Are there any Tory MPs Labour wouldn't welcome?

May 17, 202431 min
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Episode description

It's a defection listener questions special.


We’ve had lots of questions come in this week about defection, prompted by the surprise and somewhat contentious defection of the once Conservative MP for Dover and Deal, Natalie Elphicke, to Labour last week.


To help guide us through Hannah Barnes, associate editor, is joined in the studio by Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor at the New Statesman, and down the line by David Gauke, former Conservative MP for South West Hertfordshire and New Statesman columnist.


Read: Do Tory defections to Labour herald a realignment?

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