Natalie Elphicke may have crossed the floor, though has she changed her strongly-held views on Labour and its leader? Guido has had a trawl through some of them…
Over the years the Dover MP:
- Said “same old Labour” is planning on “grabbing more in taxes from the pockets of millions of hardworking British people.“
- Said Labour’s “latest relaunch completely ignored the small boats crisis.“
- Rated Starmer’s PMQs performance as “confused and muddled“, adding that Labour would “take our country backwards on Brexit and break up the United Kingdom.“
- Wrote an op-ed for the Express titled: “Don’t trust Labour on immigration they really want open borders“.
- Slammed Labour as a party “not serious about stopping small boats, tackling criminality, protecting people from the smuggling gangs or saving lives in the Channel.“
- Accused “unpatriotic” Labour of “talking Britain down” for attacking the Tories’ economic record.
- Said that “Labour back fewer and weaker border controls when it comes to illegal arrivals on our shores.“
- Attacked Labour for planning to force taxpayers to “pay asylum seekers nearly £20,000 a year“.
- Called Labour “disgraceful and inexcusable” for trying to pause legislation to protect veterans from prosecution
- Alleged that her new boss Keir Starmer misled the house for claiming that Boris accused the BBC of not being harsh enough on Putin.
- Savaged Sadiq Khan’s “expensive car tax” on struggling residents.
- Celebrated Labour voters switching sides in 2019.
- Attacked Labour for achieving 100 times fewer council homes than the Tories.
- Personally messaging Tom Hunt MP in 2022 that his article bashing Starmer’s time leading CPS and his “failure to prosecute Jimmy Savile” was “very well put”.
Should make for a fun first meeting with her local Labour colleagues…
