Health Secretary Victoria Atkins has confronted questions on the unusually excessive variety of Conservative defectors to Labour.
Trevor Phillips put to her that solely eight MPs have ever gone from the Tories to Labour, however 4 of these occurred on this parliament.
She mentioned: "Well, I’m not going to comment on the individuals. They will have had their own reasons for going."
Ms Atkins additionally described it as a "great surprise" that "such a hard-right Conservative politician" akin to Natalie Elphicke ought to defect to Labour.
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