RichardJMurphy, 
Dan Poulter MP’s defection to Labour looks like self preservation, cynical manoeuvring and keeping some doors just a little bit open https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/28/dan-poulter-mps-defection-to-labour-looks-like-self-preservation-cynical-manoeuvring-and-keeping-some-doors-just-a-little-bit-open/. When politics is reduced to the hope that someone will still have coffee with you when you return to work in the NHS, of course you will quit the Tories.
