Ex-Tory MP Dan Poulter to advise Labour on tackling mental health crisis

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Dr Dan Poulter, who defected to Labour from the Conservatives, will advise the party while also continuing his work in the NHS

will vow to “inject resource and reform” into mental health services as he welcomes MP and psychiatrist Dr Dan Poulter – who quit the Tory Party in anger over the NHS crisis – to Labour.

“The health service has ceased to be an area of priority for the Conservative Party, and that is now showing in the strain on the front line and the deterioration of care for patients,” he said. “I will not sit on my hands while tens of thousands of people have their lives on hold and ambition curtailed while they languish on mental health waiting lists,” he said ahead of Monday’s visit.

Dr Poulter will take the Labour whip until the general election but will not be standing again to be the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, a traditionally safe Tory seat where he was first elected in 2010.

 

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