Two days after defecting to Labour, the former Conservative Natalie Elphicke stood in front of a pure red backdrop as she introduced Keir Starmer in her Dover constituency – on the frontline of the battle over stopping small boat crossings.
Before a slogan stating “border security”, Labour’s newest MP railed against her former Tory colleagues for having failed to control migration, and praised Starmer for stepping into the centre ground that Rishi Sunak had “abandoned”.
