The Observer – Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis

In an interview with the Observer, Mr Poulter, who is also a part-time mental health doctor, says the experience of working more than 20 night shifts in A&E over the last year has been “truly life-changing” and that he feels the Conservative government has been “failing on the thing I care about most, which is the NHS and its patients”. The paper adds that Mr Poulter has said he will not seek re-election, but that he hopes to find a role advising Labour on mental health policy.

Elsewhere, the paper also reports on the contaminated blood scandal saying the government was warned about dirty blood since the 1970s.