Jessie Ames Bbc [verified] May 2026

I spoke this morning to a Conservative MP of 12 years, a reliably loyal voice who asked not to be named. “Jessie,” he said, “I have voted with the whip through Partygate, through the lettuce, through everything. But if I vote for this, I am voting to close the A&E in my town. I can’t explain that to a mother waiting six hours for an ambulance.”

BBC Senior Political Correspondent

I went to a coffee shop across from Parliament this lunchtime. A nurse in scrubs was staring at her phone, refreshing a news page. “I don’t care who wins,” she told me. “I just need to know if I can pay my rent on the 1st. You lot in the media talk about ‘process.’ I talk about my daughter’s school shoes.” jessie ames bbc