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We haven't been able to take payment You must update your payment details via My Account or by clicking update payment details to keep your subscription. Act now to keep your subscription We've tried to contact you several times as we haven't been able to take payment. You must update your payment details via My Account or by clicking update payment details to keep your subscription. Your subscription is due to terminate We've tried to contact you several times as we haven't been able to take payment. You must update your payment details via My Account, otherwise your subscription will terminate. Sunday May 19 2024 You wouldn't imagine a defecting backbench MP to have achieved the sort of fame required to be considered waxwork-worthy. But, credit where it's due, the people over at Madame Tussauds must have been working flat-out over the past five days to get the Dr Dan Poulter statue ready in time to insert in the row behind Keir Starmer at prime minister's questions. "I would like to welcome the member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich!" announced the Labour leader. Dr Poulter, in case you don't know, defected from Conservative to Labour last weekend, causing considerable shock, not least to political sketch writers, who were until that point entirely unaware of his existence. Cheers went up, but not from Poulter himself. He looked like a terrified
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