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By John Stevens & Sophie Huskisson Labour is talking to more Tory MPs who could defect after Natalie Elphicke dramatically switched sides yesterday. In a shock move just minutes before Prime Minister’s Questions, the Dover MP crossed the floor to join Keir Starmer ’s party. It came only a fortnight after fellow Conservative Dr Dan Poulter made the jump. Ms Elphicke blasted PM Rishi Sunak ’s “tired and chaotic government” as she argued that a general election “cannot come soon enough”. “Under Rishi Sunak, the Conservatives have become a byword for incompetence and ­division,” she added. Welcomi…

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