{"id":37065,"date":"2024-04-27T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/the-nhs-deserves-better-says-defecting-tory-mp\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T17:53:12","slug":"the-nhs-deserves-better-says-defecting-tory-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/the-nhs-deserves-better-says-defecting-tory-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The NHS deserves better&#8217; says defecting Tory MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/27D1\/production\/_133239101_p0htlpv3.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"&#8216;The NHS deserves better&#8217; says defecting Tory MP\" title=\"&#8216;The NHS deserves better&#8217; says defecting Tory MP\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former health minister and Conservative MP Daniel Poulter has defected to Labour, saying he disagreed with the Conservative Party&#8217;s handling of the NHS. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an exclusive TV interview with BBC&#8217;s Laura Kuenssberg, the Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP said the NHS &#8220;deserves better&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I found it increasingly difficult to look my NHS colleagues in the eye, my patients in the eye, and my constituents in the eye with good conscience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Poulter, who was first elected in 2010, served as a health minister for several years under the coalition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can watch his full interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC One at 09:00 BST.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-68913779\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former health minister and Conservative MP Daniel Poulter has defected to Labour, saying he disagreed with the Conservative Party&#8217;s handling of the NHS. In an exclusive TV interview with BBC&#8217;s Laura Kuenssberg, the Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP said the NHS &#8220;deserves better&#8221;. He said: &#8220;I found it increasingly difficult to look my NHS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/27D1\/production\/_133239101_p0htlpv3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[39906,32505,6827,492],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37067,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37065\/revisions\/37067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}