Natalie Elphicke's Labour Defection Has Everyone Pulling Up Receipts Of Her Voting Record

  (The Huffington Post) : Former Tory MP for Dover Natalie Elphicke defected to Labour just before PMQs today. Ex-Tory MP Natalie Elphicke’s defection to Labour today has raised several eyebrows – not least because of her own, deeply divisive, voting record. While she will still be standing down at the next general election, the move has triggered an intense reaction. The second Tory to cross the floor in less than two weeks, Elphicke accused PMRishi Sunak of “failing to keep our borders safe” and of “incompetence and division”. However, the now-Labour MP for Dover has been accused of stoking division herself since she was elected in 2019 – and social media was not going to let her forget that today. People pulled up articles she has written in the past, such as one from 2022 for The Mail on Sunday titled: “When will the Left admit this is no refugee crisis...but simply illegal immigration.” Another for the Express, published in April 2023, said: “Don’t trust Labour on immigration, they really want open borders.” Her claim that migrants use razor blades to cut fingers and avoid identification also resurfaced. Welcome to the Labour party Natalie Elphicke! pic.twitter.com/T70Zv6jNmj— James Heale (@JAHeale) May 8, 2024 Keir Starmer just welcomed hard-right, anti-migrant Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke into the Labour party. Some highlights from her recent record pic.twitter.com/nQYF1IW4SL— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) May 8, 2024 The Sunday Times’ Gabriel Pogrund posted a thread on X (formerly Twitter) explaining how Elphicke reacted after her now ex-husband – ex-MP Charlie Elphicke – was convicted ..