Rishi Sunak left embarrassed as Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour at PMQs
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2024
- “My flabber is absolutely gasted”
Natalie Elphicke is “one of the last people you’d expect to defect to Labour”, says a flabbergasted Patrick Maguire as the MP for Dover crosses the floor from the Conservatives, citing the government's "broken promises". Matt Chorley and Patrick Maguire unpack the action live from PMQs moments after the shock defection.
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I love how her morals only became an issue when she moved to Labour. She's been a Tory for a while now, nothing said.
What are you talking about? Labour are welcoming her with open arms so of course it's going to be an issue.
I think Labour will take her for now, but will they select her as their candidate when the rest of us are finally allowed to dump the "Tories"? I doubt it.
She’s got no soul. DOVER SOLE 😂
@@brusselssprouts560 they selected Starmer as their candidate and kick Jeremy Corbyn out of the party.
It's because people expect a Tory to have morals in the gutter
Not a victory, its rats leaving a sinking ship. Not through conviction, just self preservation BS
Well said and most definitely true. They are all a bunch of corrupt grifters
Some of them are not standing at the next election anyway.
Because Labour is more right wing?
@@stewartkingsleybit of both. Labour are New New Labour centre right Blairites. And she’s clearly a self serving Tory scumbag
Perhaps
We want a general election now.
Yes let’s get Labour in , their doing a great job in Wales as we speak
From 2018 to 2022, England’s economy grew by 2 per cent. Over the same period, the Welsh economy shrank by 1 per cent. Council tax has risen faster in Wales, and business rates are at the highest level in the UK. There are many unknowns about how Labour would actually govern nationally if it wins the general election. The worrying evidence from Wales is that taxes are likely to go up even as public services get even worse.
A pattern of poor delivery can be seen across Welsh schools and the NHS. Welsh pupils’ scores in international league tables have declined since 2018. The gap between Welsh and English children’s PISA scores is the widest in a decade. NHS patients consistently wait longer for treatment in Wales and the numbers seeking treatment across the border in English hospitals instead has soared.
These failures are not unrelated to the Welsh Labour administration’s fondness for top-down control. During Covid, Wales became notorious for its extreme approach to lockdowns, maintaining the measures longer than almost anywhere else in Britain. Mr Gething himself clashed with Boris Johnson in early 2022 after the then prime minister lifted the requirement for those in England who contracted Covid to self-isolate.
The latest symbol of ideological overreach by Welsh Labour is its hugely unpopular 20mph limit on nearly all restricted roads. Some polls have showed almost two thirds of the population opposing the policy. Yet Mr Gething still backs the radical shift, and simply says that its communication was badly handled.
@@daffyddduck2419you have 1 argument and its not even a good one
@@Shsjier The fact that the Labour party cant even govern one part of the UK is not a good argument? I suppose if you are Welsh then you want to spread the misery to everyone else.
@@stewartkingsley what about nhs waiting lists? Have you seen the graph showing the difference between labour and the Tories over the last few decades? We can all find 1 example to support an argument either way. I'm not even a big fan of labour. But if you think this 1 argument is gunna convince people to vote tory, then you're more deluded than braverman and the other nutters
What's the point? They may as well just get enough Tories to defect and save us all the bother.
The quality of senior MPs right now is really poor. There are cabinet members, including the PM, who historically would have been junior ministers.
I am surprised how weak sunak is. He can’t answer a single question. No faith in his leadership or policies, is it surprising to see such big splits in his party and a country in chaos under his leadership
Yes, the longer Sunak clings on, the more difficult it is for the left and ‘Ola-Ubers’ to take over this country. Well done 👏 👏 You all have no idea that you hated on a wrong man ! Now wait for the ‘Ola-Uber’ chants everywhere the Labour and ‘greens’ win!
@@user-ob4wo9po2yhe is weak but still stronger than Starmer.
Yep same here in the States with our Reps and those appointed to critical committees, ii.e. Marjorie tater tot Greene is on the effin NATIONAL SECURITY committee - the cmte that is receiving the most secure intelligence, only the chair sees anything more classified than the rest
It's insane how far off the deep end and into the abyss of desperation both conservative parties have gone
Why does Richie always ask Starma questions ? Does the poor little dear not understand the concept of prime ministers questions
The speaker should have pulled Sunak up on this - as he has in the past - because the Prime Minister is not allowed to ask questions of the Leader of the Opposition. Starmer called this out but nothing from Hoyle here.
Rats and sinking ship come to mind.
Leaving one ship to join another.... that is good for whom?
Dont want the likes of her in the Labour Party.
she is not standing again - so it's this week's temporary poke in the eye for Sunak.
It really just goes to show the narrow difference between labour and tory! Not to forget her ineffectual action when p&o sacked their workers. Thecagency workers now employer being paid less than £3 an hour!
Lack of difference or lack of choice? It's a two party system. Greens, reform etc will never hold power...other than Tory what choice is there?
@laurav.7241 ? Labour has shifted further to the right whilst the Tories have gone completely mad and they're trying to court far right mongs
These politicians could all swap parties and feel completely at home as there is no difference, none of them have any fresh ideas and even if they did they would ignore it all if elected. The two party system is broken.
It's Starmer who's embarrassed welcoming all these Tories with open arms.
Labour should do careful vetting of who they are accepting as defectors into their party. There is toxicity all over the Tories.
Call me crazy but a so called left wing/socialist party shouldn't be accepting ANY of these crooks
But hey, its a "changed labour party". Yeah, because you're filling it with actual tories
Toxicity all over both. They are the uni party after all
The fact that she feels at home in Labour says it all about these pretend parties. They are no different.
If I live to be 100 I will never put a cross next to Conservative again. I’ve learned my lesson.
This is no moment of triumph for Labour. The woman's views are repellent to those looking for moderation and tolerance in British politics. Typical of Starmer to welcome her without a single qualm.
"The Labour MP Natalie Elphicke has defected to the Conservatives".... errrmmm... wishful thinking there? 🤣
Surprised they didn't pick that up !!!
be fair, it's hard to tell the difference
Tories are Toast 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂 leaving a Tory sinking ship
It's embarrassing all round really. Was she too extreme for Reform I wonder?
What lengths some people will go, to try and stay an MP. Labour should drop her soon, unless Labour are moving to the right of course.
Jumping a sinking ship⛴️
Defects should not be allowed in parliament. Make it an automatic election. Let voters decide if they want this specific individual to represent this specific political party.
How've I managed to live in A time where radio has it's own video shows 😂
The tories are are total blight upon this earth!! 😡
Worst PM ever
All the signs are here 😂
Time to have a moral party.
So not Labour then.
@@ehnowthenso none of them then.
Definitely not Reform then.
Green Party
I wouldn't be proud about Natalie joining my party. Just a useless shady Tory lady whose morals and principles can be bought by the highest bidder.
Vote Labour to get back all the useless tories. Says it all about our democracy. Who next Cameron?
I shall abstain. There’s nothing to vote for.
Tories and Labour are two cheeks of the same a*se. Voting Labour is as dumb as voting Tory.
Not voting is also a form of voting, but with one difference: you are not entitled to complain about the government either as the opposition or as a supporter who has been let down by their own.
@@oakstrong1 but if people didn’t vote, by default the current government would remain in power.
One of the foxes has put on a beagle outfit and started barking
leaving befor ship sinks couldn't happen to a nicer person poor little rich how more will be leaving the sinking ship
Defecting means nothing. They’re still a Tory.
It's great that Sunak lost another supporter, but I don't trust anyone's integrity who jumps the boat at the last moments before the elections, especially one that was at far right.
More jobs? There's currently approx 500 applicants per low skilled job.
Rishi must be supplying the sound. Hang on until January Rishi "Things can only get better" 🌋
Interesting that that tory journalist they usually have on (Tim?) isn't present.
Never mind Rishi Sunak, Times Radio is speechless at the defection. Sound please!
Its taken from the Keystone Cops!
The longer Sunak clings on, the more difficult it is for the left and ‘Ola-Ubers’ to take over this country. Well done 👏 👏 You all have no idea that you hated on a wrong man ! Now wait for the ‘Ola-Uber’ chants everywhere the Labour and ‘greens’ win!
NE is a woman with strong principles. And, if you dont like them she has plenty more!
This is the genius of Isac Levido on full display. He gave a lecture to tory MPs recently about how to win power. (Join Labour)😂
Sound coming thru’ OK here.
I think Sunak's Sun_k
He should've called it for the last Thursday in May.
Now it's going to turn into the longest political party death rattle easily in living memory.
When will they realise ,the Country has done with the Tories, wake up and smell the coffee, it's the end of the Road ...🫠🫠🤣🤣🤣
See what she voted for or against, she's just job jumping, her morals as a toty need to be looked at.
Must be bad when Starmer et al think it is good for the Labour party.
Elphick is from the rabbid right wing turns Labour? No, she's been promised a peerage for her defection! Unbelievable, Starmer will be embracing the politics of Enoch Powell next!!! 😂😂😂
Source?
Go Labour ❤
Oh whatever ff shambles 😅😅😅 all of them
Our politicians are now so bad
Wasn't she the dunce who joined in a crowd of protestors chanting against herself?
The idea that she is a 'serious commercial lawyer' is baffling. She's not a serious anything.
Serious grifter maybe.
Some may have forgotten that episode but was it not that she did exactly that?
Who’s next Jacob Resse Mogg? 😂
Yeah journos from the times were breifing that khan had lost and they were doing that before a single vote had been counted
14 000 children.
He don't look happy 😂😂🤣🤣
When will the tory party listen, specifically the prat RISHI SUNAK to the British People, this is why we want RISHI SUNAK out and the complete tory party out
He wants to defect back to flip flop land
We are sick of him
I understand she is not standing for Labour at the next election.
just goes to show after 14 years they've reached the bottom of the barrel
Out with the torys.. no food banks..
How many more going? There will be a load more yet leaving hahaha
It's just a pay packet, their politics are interchangeable as these mainstream parties are evil twins.
Funny that sunak said new snp😅
Amazed the presenters didnt correct...
Labour mp joined the conservative party.
Very suprised.
Imagine how riveting Sunak’s new career as an after dinner speaker is gong to be … rather poke cocktail sticks in my eyes … model of a charmless man
3:40 - I spotted the deliberate error!!!
Is he going to blame sir keir with scrapping HS2
Not looking good on his team conservative if people are defecting to another party 😮😮😂
What we really need is for the next GE to be called, and soon! It would be an insult to zombies to call this a zombie Government!
It will make no difference if the twin party gets in.
@@maccagrabme Seems like it will make a difference to you! Otherwise, why're you bothering to reply?
These presenters seem to be as clueless as the present shameless government. No amount of disrespect for the opposition can hide the fact that sunak is toast just like his party! They should rename PMQS the comedy half hour.
How many Ministers, Junior Ministers, Toddler Ministers and Baby Ministers are there actually in the United Kingdom? About 250? Your government is a joke.
I'm no Conservative party supporter. It's not Rishi Sunak who needs to feel embarrassed, but all those who flee the party to join the winning ticket elsewhere! These are the very worst in politics...people who have only one pre occupation - how to remain in power...and in a job!
Both Elphicke and the doctor dude are both standing down at the next election. Don't know about Christian Wakeford who defected ages ago.
And also Labour who are Tories this, Tories that, Tories the other and then welcome them with open arms.
I believe it was John Crace, you referred to saying “Rishi Sunak just died on his feet”. After today Rishi Sunak seriously needs to ask the question does he want another 5 months of this. Public and electorate resentment will grow weekly until he calls an election, undoubtedly Oliver Dowden was clearly thinking about “Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”.
Is little rishi not counting the hundreds of thousands of visa's given to india ????????
Dowden from 24:20 looks like he has to eject praise for the PM out of his body 😆 The level of sycophancy some MPs get to is clearly unhealthy, I’ve never seen someone who voluntarily works somewhere and supports someone have to force themselves to feign enthusiasm
No audio?
You can have her good luck another version of anna subury
Another rat leaving a sunak tory party. But will labour look after the people or the rich.
Perhaps NE has defected to Labour for the sake of her career. She can look into history and see that most Tory defectors to Labour do well. Labour tries to rehabilitate them but I must emphasise Sir Oswald Mosley as being an exception.
Pathetic.
Two big dinghies arrived in Sussex today
Another arrived later today
What's happened to viewers' comments?
Too quiet.
I just wish that all those right-wing opportunists whom Stamer welcomed into labour are not "double agents" that will only sabotage Labour party with their right wing ideology. I mean, it's not like Starmer and his party is very left wing. The way I see it, Tories have moved way further to the right, whereas is now only slightly to the left of the centre if any.
GE enough
She’s standing down… Do your jobs! Hacks…
Sunak is such a spoiled brat 24:20
Bit of an error from 3:40 to 3:45.
Spare some audio sire
Titanic 2
The tories are so far left they are leaving to join Labour as they are far right 😂😂😂😂😂
Get some realistic announcers... Ones who can read an opinion poll.
Why can’t England find a decent leader with a last name that is not foreign?
You mean a name like Starmer?
dont forget starmer and saville...
Uni party
Zero brain
@@MurphyOCP-001 Bit harsh on yourself there son.
@@lesb-fe2jf wooooooosh
No sound...amateurs...
Election now Sunak , let’s get Labour in and all will be ok again like in Wales
September please 🙏
Labour should also be embarrassed. A true blue Conservative wanting to join the Labour party because its more right wing than the Conservative party.
They're not, though. They're shameless.
Keir Starmer is hopeless, Sunak' s mansions and Angela Rayners Council house, isn't dodgey a word you can't use? Come on Matt!
I've never voted Conservative in my life, never will. But this is why Labour won't get my vote either. We have purple politics in Britain. Tory, Labour, Lib dem, Greens all obsessed with net zero, none will ever deal with immigration or accept 90% of the housing issue is because of immigration. You could take any mp in parliament and slap them in each other's party.
Your problem is that you don’t understand politics.
“or accept 90% of house problems is due to immigration…”
Ok. Enlighten us, with facts and figures as to how you arrived at that conclusion.
@@hastekulvaati9681 It was reported this morning...Try using a search engine!
@@hastekulvaati9681 It's been in the news in this morning.
UK needs immigration to survive because Jeremy Kyle and right wing media shamed people from having children and right wing politicians have take all support away.
"If you can't afford children you shouldn't have them." Everyone doesn't have perfect family or golden safety net like Boris Johnson.
Brits got shamed or scared from breeding. By the right.
Wrong. 90% of the housing issues is because the rich keep buying houses and renting out the assets making them more unaffordable.
How right wing have labour become to keep attracting Tories???
The far-left gets a nice view on their high horse, but the centre-left wins elections.
@@redlightmaxoh yeah. Anti immigration GET BREXIT DONE wins by a landslide. That centre left agenda???
He's used to it🤷🏼♂️