For Central Suffolk and North Ipswich since the 2010 election. He combines his political career with Practising Medicine as an nhs Hospital Doctor on a part time basis. He confirmed he was defecting to labour in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg take a listen. And it increasingly difficult to look my patients, nhs colleagues and constituents in the eye. I feel the ifeel the nhs i feel the nhs deserves ifeel the nhs deserves better i feel the nhs deserves better in the terms of how it is governed. The conservatives had a compassionate view about supporting the more disadvantaged in society. I think the Conservative Party today is in a very different place. Its focus is not on delivering or supporting high quality public services. With me is our Political Correspondent ben wright. Tell is about who dan poulter is on the significance of his defection. He represents Central Suffolk and North Ipswich. Hejoined the party under david cameron. He is very much of cameron conservative, he is at
Hello and welcome to sportsday with me gavin ramjaun. A Touchline Spat between mo salah and jurgen klopp, and two points dropped at west ham in another disappointing day for liverpool. Sheffield united are the first team relegated from the top flight theyre thumped by newcastl, as their lacklustre season goes on. And england on the verge of a third successive grand slam at the womens six nations as theyre up against france. Hello there, and welcome along to the programme after the midweek Merseyside Derby loss to everton, liverpool really had a job on their hands to stay in this Premier League title race, and today, they did themselves no favours at all held to a draw with west ham. The result leavesjurgen klopp s side two points behind leaders arsenal, having played a game more. And the tensions, potentially starting to show as nick parrott reports. The frustrating into liverpools seasonis the frustrating into liverpools season is becoming more apparent with every game. After losing t
Hour, ill be dealing with andrew neil, my former colleague. Its bad blood. You wont want to miss it. Thats at ten. So two hours of big opinion, big debate and big entertainment. Mark dolan, tonight is your perfect saturday night in. Lets start with mr saturday night himself. The start with mr saturday night himself. The one and only ray addison. Addison. Thanks, mark. Just after nine our top stories conservative mp doctor Daniel Poulter has defected to labour, saying the tories are now a nationalist party of the right. Announcing his decision in the observer newspaper, the former Health Minister said it is abundantly clear that the labour party alone has the will and the trust to restore and reform the nhs. To restore and reform the nhs. He urged rishi sunak to call a general election as soon as possible. A tory party possible. A tory Party Spokesperson has described the news as disappointing , but news as disappointing, but labour leader sir keir starmer called it fantastic. Doctor ca
Progress in finding common ground. In the last few hours, its also been announced that americas top diplomat Antony Blinken will visit saudi arabia this week. Meanwhile, hamas has posted a new video, which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel, and omri miran, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas considered a terror group by the uk and Us Governments has published in the past few days. Our correspondent anna foster is in tel aviv where families have been gathering to call again for all the hostages in gaza to be released. Omri miran s father was actually already on the list of confirmed speakers for this event tonight. When he got up on the stage, he talked about the moment, he said he was sitting having coffee with someone and talking about his grandchildren when the man he was talking to held his phone and said, look, they have released a v
Is expected to visit saudi arabia in the coming days. Meanwhile, hamas has posted a new video, which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel, and om ri mir an, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas considered a terror group by the uk and us governments has published in the past few days. Our correspondent, anna foster, is in tel aviv where families have been gathering to again call for the release of all the hostages. Omri miran s father was actually already on the list of confirmed speakers for this event tonight. When he got up on the stage, he talked about the moment, he said he was sitting having coffee with someone and talking about his grandchildren when the man he was talking to held his phone and said, look, they have released a video of omri. What was also interesting was as the crowd were gathered here tonight, is they showed that vide