On Monday Rishi Sunak suffered his first defeat in the commons with his attempts to delay compensation payments to victims of the haemophilia scandal who were given blood donated – or sold – by people infected with HIV and hepatitis C.
The Chair of the Haemophilia Society said the government stance was “on the wrong side of history”; a ‘huge error’ and hailed the Commons defeat as ‘victory for democracy’.
Simon Jupp dutifully voted with the defeated government
East Devon Watch 
I note that Mr Jupp didn’t even sit on the fence on this one, he supported what amounts to delaying payments to the victims and families of this terrible health blunder that goes back as far as the 70’s. Such lack of support for families is despicable and leaves one in no doubt that Jupp’s loyalties lay only with his political masters
I am currently reading a book by a former Tory MP of mine, and later member of the House of Lords, and one thing is clear from it, that there are ways open to MPs of expressing dissenting views without risking losing their party whip. Looking at Hansard, I see no attempt to question his party’s view (as some of his colleagues did in the vote) leaving no doubt in my mind that party and his own interests are his top priorities.
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