"Under your leadership [David Cameron’s] the Conservative Party appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything. "It has no bedrock. It exists on shifting sands. A sense of mission has been replaced by a PR agenda." - Quentin Davies
BBC: Tory MP Quentin Davies has defected to Labour, "delighting" new leader and prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown.
The MP for Grantham and Stamford made his decision public in a letter to Conservative leader David Cameron, with whom he has long been at odds.
He wrote that the party seemed "to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything".
But Lincolnshire County Council's Tory leader Martin Hill called the defection an "act of treachery and betrayal".
Mr Davies has long been at odds with the Tory leadership - in 2005, shadow chancellor George Osborne said he and Mr Davies disagreed on "almost everything". Conservative MP defects to Labour (more)
Mark Alexander
