A shadow cabinet member has insisted he is not aware of any offers being made to a Tory MP who defected to the Labour Party at the weekend.
Dr Dan Poulter, a former minister who has served as the Tory MP for Central Suffolk & North Ipswich since 2010, announced on Saturday that he could no longer “look people in the eye” while he stayed in the Conservative Party. The defection presents a new headache for Rishi Sunak just days before the local elections.
Poulter is the second Tory MP to defect to Labour under Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, after Christian Wakeford, the MP for Bury South, who defected during Boris Johnson’s premiership in protest over Downing Street parties during Covid lockdowns. Last month Lee