Quote Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew View Post
2 stand-out quotes from this BBC piece:

"The MP, who still works on NHS wards, said he had been thinking about quitting the Conservatives for the last few months, having been first elected in 2010. The strain on the NHS made his mind up".

"He suggested the party had stopped valuing public services, saying: "The difficulty for the Conservative Party is that the party I was elected into valued public services... it had a compassionate view about supporting the more disadvantaged in society".

Both of which I think are absolute w*nk. I'm very glad he's standing down as an MP at the next election. I'm not sure I'd trust his decision-making as a Dr either.
He said that he could no longer look his NHS colleagues in the eye being a conservative

I am surprised he hasn't ended up in casualty himself being so open about his support for the conservatives since 2010

Maybe some of his junior doctors were planning on lynching him so he jumped ship