THE SNP’s Westminster leader has told the Labour Party to “show some standards” after Tory MP Natalie Elphicke’s defection.
for one day for trying to influence the judge in a case linked to her former partner Charlie Elphicke, who was found guilty on multiple counts of sexual assault.She also previously hit out at footballer Marcus Rashford, claiming he missed a penalty for England because he had spent too much time"playing politics" and campaigning for free school meals.
Even some Tory MPs were struggling to understand the news, with Wycombe MP Steve Baker commenting: “I have been searching in vain for asaid: “Come on, Starmer supporters! Let’s hear you loudly cheer on your new Labour MP, hard-right ex-Tory MP Natalie Elphicke. “Just recently she’d written a Daily Mail article saying, ‘don’t trust Labour on immigration, they really want open borders’ and now she’s sitting with them,” he said.
“But equally the Labour Party has changed and we are pretty clearly the party of the national interest, of country first, party second. A spokesperson for Starmer said Elphicke could potentially take on an unpaid role working on housing policy with Labour.
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