British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday suffered a humiliating defection from his party benches as a Conservative MP defected to join the Opposition Labour ranks, saying the Tories "have become a byword for incompetence and division".
Natalie Elphicke, MP for Dover, in a resignation statement just moments before the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), accused Sunak of "broken promises" and abandoning key pledges.
The 43-year-old British Indian leader went on to face off with Labour Leader Keir Starmer, who made the most of the shock move which marks the second defection from the Tories to Labour in two weeks and comes on the back of bruising local election results for the governing party.
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