Hello and welcome to Coffey House shots The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup.

Natalie Alphick's dramatic defection to Labour had already caused quite a bit of controversy

this week with many in the

Labour Party feeling she should not have been welcome given her position on the

right of the Conservative Party. Now there could be more trouble for Kiestama

after the Sunday Times reported that

Elphic may have lobbied the then Justice Secretary Robert Buckland

over her husband's trial on sexual assault charges in 2020.

Speaking to Labor Front Benchar Jonathan Ashworth on the BBC, Laura Coonsburg asked if Elphick should be investigated.

The Sunday Times this morning has reported that you're a new MP Natalie Elfick who last week joined

your ranks as being accused of lobbying the then Justice Secretary about her husband's

court case.

Should that be investigated?

Well she says it's nonsense.

It's not in her interpretation of events.

I don't understand if why the Lord Chancellor at the time did not raise this

and why he's raising it now, but she says it's not in her interpretation of the

of that discussion. Should it be investigated just to make sure that it was all absolutely

above board because either she isn't telling the truth or Robert Buckland who is a

Casey and who was the Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor isn't telling the truth.

Well look she said it is not her interpretation she says it is it is nonsense I wasn't there weren't there. I mean look if Robert Buckland has got

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