The Conservative Party lost one of its newest MPs today as Christian Wakeford sensationally announced he was defecting to Labour just moments before Prime Minister's Questions.
The Bury South MP told Boris Johnson that he and his party had "shown themselves incapable of offering the leadership and government this country deserves”.
Mr Wakeford won the seat in 2019. The Greater Manchester constituency, which had voted Labour for more than 20 years, was one of several 'Red Wall' seats to fall to the Tories at the last election.
The MP had been one of seven Tory MPs to publicly call for Mr Johnson to quit following allegations of rule breaking in Downing Street during the coronavirus lockdown.
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