Tory Ex-health Minister Dan Poulter Defects to Labour

The MP and psychiatrist claimed Labour is the ‘only cure’ to save struggling NHS and the Conservative Party has become ‘a nationalist party of the right.’

Member of Parliament for Central Suffolk Dr. Daniel Dan Poulter arrives early to vote at the 2010 general election on May 6, 2010. Alamy/PA

Conservative MP and former health minister Dr. Dan Poulter has defected to Labour over Tory “neglect” of the NHS and the party’s “nationalist” shift, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Dr. Poulter, who’s also a working consultant psychiatrist, said he could no longer “look [his] NHS colleagues in the eye,” and claimed “the Labour party alone has the will and the trust to restore and reform the NHS.”