The Conservative MP Christian Wakeford has defected to the Labour Occasion, in one other blow to Boris Johnson simply moments earlier than prime minister’s questions.
Because the prime minister faces the escalating risk of a management problem over allegations of rule-breaking events in No 10, Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the Bury South MP into Labour’s ranks.
Simply yesterday, the previous Tory MP submitted a letter of no confidence in Mr Johnson to the chair of the 1922 committee, Sir Graham Brady.
In a coup for the Labour chief – simply over 10 minutes earlier than prime minister’s questions – Sir Keir mentioned: “I want to welcome Christian Wakeford to the Labour Occasion. He has at all times put the individuals of Bury South first.
“As Christian mentioned, the insurance policies of the Conservative authorities are doing nothing to assist the individuals of Bury South and certainly are solely making the struggles they face each day worse.
In correspondence with the prime minister on Wednesday, Mr Wakeford, who was elected in 2019, mentioned the nation wanted “a authorities that upholds the very best requirements of integrity and probity in public life and sadly each you and the Conservative Occasion as a complete have proven themselves incapable of providing the management and authorities this nation deserves.”
Mr Wakeford, who mentioned he had “wrestled with my conscience” for months over the choice, went on: “I can not assist a authorities that has proven itself constantly out of contact with the onerous working individuals of Bury South and the nation as a complete.
“Beneath Keir Starmer, the Labour Occasion is again firmly within the centre of British politics, in contact with working individuals, and able to present another authorities that this nation will be pleased with, and never embarrassed by.
“My determination is about way more than your management and the disgraceful method you may have performed your self in latest weeks.
“Nevertheless, I don’t imagine all politicians are the identical and I do imagine within the energy of politics to be a pressure for good. So does Keir Starmer. He has proven that integrity in the best way he has led his occasion on points that matter to me, not least the very important problem of combatting antisemitism.
“I’ll at all times put the individuals of Bury South first and can proceed to talk out for the modifications the realm wants. Modifications that may solely be delivered by a Labour authorities with Keir Starmer.”
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