Claiming Labour will defend Britain’s borders is a sick joke

It’s always the activists I feel sorry for when someone crosses the floor. There you are in the Dover constituency Labour Party, plugging away in a seat your party held until 2010 and which, given the state of the polls, you might have a chance of picking up at the general election. And then one statement from Natalie Elphicke and, all of a sudden, you’re pounding the pavement alongside the very Tory against whom you’ve been campaigning so hard for four years. It’s a rum deal, even if they are p