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ANDREW PIERCE: How can Labour now welcome the MP Rachel Reeves once told to 'f*** off'? By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 01:48, 9 May 2024 | Updated: 01:48, 9 May 2024 e-mail View comments Only last year, Natalie Elphicke delivered a withering assessment of Labour Party policy over the influx of migrants arriving on small boats across the channel, an issue close to her heart as the MP for Dover. She released a mocked-up picture of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer standing beside a door bearing a ‘Welcome’ sign, which opened on to a beach in her constituency. ‘The facts are clear,’ she said in the accompanying press release.
‘Labour does not want to stop the small boats. This is Labour’s small boat policy. Backing people smugglers over the British people.
‘At every opportunity, Labour has voted against the small boats Rwanda Bill. That’s why the Government’s Stop The Boats Bill is so vital, and why Labour’s attempts to undermine it are so dangerous.’ Natalie Elphicke with husband Charlie arriving at Southwark Crown Court in London where he is on trial accused of three counts of sexually assaulting two women Yet just over 12 months later, in a display of breathtaking political opportunism, Ms Elphicke, 53, has jumped ship to Labour – an organisation she has spent the last five years savaging at every opportunity – in the knowledge that it has committed itself to repealing the Rwanda legislation even if it is working as a deterrent.
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