British Conservative MP Quentin Davies has defected to the Labour Party, saying the Tories had "no bedrock," in a propaganda coup for Gordon Brown as he prepares to become Prime Minister tomorrow.
"Under your leadership the Conservative Party appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything," Davies told party leader David Cameron in a letter posted on the Conservative.home.com website.
Tory MP Quentin Davies who has defected to Labour
"It exists on shifting sands," he added. "A sense of mission has been replaced by a PR agenda."
Davies has been an MP for 20 years, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Education and the Home Office when the Conservative Party was in power.
Since 1997 he has represented Grantham, birthplace of former Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
He told Sky Newsthat time and again he found Tory policy confused and not properly thought out on a range of issues including Europe, Iraq and the NHS.
"I do not think David Cameron is one of those people who has a clear framework in his mind of what the country needs, what he wants to achieve, what the bottom line is, what the right approach to politics is and what the wrong approach to politics is," he said.