Keir Starmer welcomes Dover MP Natalie Elphicke to Labour

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00:00Mr Speaker, if one week a Tory MP who is also a doctor says the Prime Minister can't be

00:07trusted with the NHS and joins Labour, and the next week the Tory MP for Dover, on the

00:15front line of the small boats crisis, says the Prime Minister cannot be trusted with

00:20our borders and joins Labour, what is the point of this failed government staggering

00:27on? Mr Speaker, can I actually join him in welcoming

00:33his newest MP for Blackpool. I must say he looks a lot happier than the member who was

00:37sitting there last week. Let me also join with him in congratulating all new and paying

00:48tribute to all former councillors, PCCs and mayors across the country. I hope his new

00:55ones do him as proud as I am of all of mine. Great leaders like Andy Street who leave behind

01:05a strong legacy of more homes, more jobs and more investment in sharp contrast to the legacy

01:11left by the last Labour government which was a letter joking that there was no money left.