No deal was done with Natalie Elphicke to secure her defection to the Labour Party, Shadow Paymaster General Jonathan Ashworth has insisted.
Asked if she has been promised a peerage, he told Camilla Tominey on GB News: “There is no deal, no deal has been done. No promises have been made.
“Natalie Elphicke was disillusioned with the failure to help young people get onto the housing ladder, disillusioned with the Tory failure to bring order to the borders and stop the boats.
“She looked at Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, she sees that's the change this country needs and she moved over as thousands and thousands of Conservatives across the country are doing.”
He added: “I am not a very tribal kind of guy. Let me say this: I've got friends, I've got relations, I've got neighbours who are Conservatives. They're not my enemy.
“They're my neighbours, my friends and relations. And I want those people, as many of them are, to shift their vote to Labour at the next General Election.”
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