TORIES LINE UP TO JOIN TEAM KEIR

Labour source says more on way as latest recruit slams Rishi Sunak

- JOHN STEPHENS

LABOUR is talking to more Tory MPs who could defect after Natalie Elphicke dramatically switched sides yesterday.

In a shock move minutes before Prime Minister's Questions began, the Dover MP crossed the floor to join Sir Keir Starmer's party.

It came only a fortnight after fellow Conservative Dr Dan Poulter made the same jump.

Elphicke blasted PM Rishi Sunak's "tired and chaotic government", as she argued that a general election "cannot come soon enough".

"Under Rishi Sunak, the Conservatives have become a byword for incompetence and division," she added.