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Well, first of all, can I reassure the Honourable Gentleman that I am not about to defect to the opposition benches.

They wouldn't be interested in me. I'm too left-wing.

That was Penny Mordant, the leader of the Commons. Now, normally, when you lose one of your MPs,

you feel sullen, chippy, irritated, insecure at what has happened. But the Tories seem to be

strangely co a hoop,

whereas Labour, who should be gloating and glowing, are feeling kind of uncomfortable about

their new arrival from Dover. It was such a shock to see Natalie Elphick, the Tory Dover MP,

crossed the floor just before Prime Minister's questions.

And when I say shock, I don't just mean for us, I mean for the Labour Party as a whole.

So today, we're going to give you a bit more reaction from the Labour Parliamentary Party,

who are still scratching their heads about what on earth Kirstama has just done. Welcome to the

newsagents. The newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And we're going to try really, really hard

not to swear today because we got told off by Vicky. Vicky, I am so sorry that there was no bad language warning at the front of the podcast,

and your kids apparently were rather gleeful, that we were being a little bit loose with our language.

Also, the shadow chancellor as well, I should say, Rachel Reeves.

I think more of the bad language over the last 24 hours has probably come from parts of the labour benches,

including the labour front benches in parts, who were just trying to work out whether this was

a masterstroke or a massive own goal on the part of Kirstama.

And I guess to put the plus side for what he's done,

you know, this was sold to me by a shadow minister who said, look, last night, the TV news

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