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Ex-Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.
She becomes the third sitting Tory MP to join Nigel Farage's party in the last eleven days, and takes Reform's tally of MPs to eight.
Unveiled at a rally in London, Braverman told Reform supporters she had also resigned her Tory membership of 30 years, adding: "I feel like I've come home."
Her defection comes hot on the heels of Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell, who also left the Conservatives earlier this month.
A major figure on the right of the party under the last government, Braverman has long been seen as a potential Reform defector at Westminster.
Conservative MP Braverman defects to Farage's Reform UK
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UK MP Suella Braverman, who was interior minister between 2022 and 2023, has joined Nigel Farage's Reform UK party from the Conservatives, she says.
Braverman is a sitting MP and becomes the latest Conservative to join Reform after former Conservative Party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick announced he was defecting earlier this month.
"I feel like I've come home," she told a Reform UK veterans event in London.
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Tories forced to withdraw Braverman mental health claim
Party said that former home secretary defected because she was ‘very unhappy’
The Conservatives have been forced to withdraw a claim suggesting that Suella Braverman has “mental health” issues.
After the former home secretary announced her defection to Reform UK, a spokesman for the Conservatives said she had been “very unhappy” and that the party had done all they could to “look after” her mental health.
An hour and a half later, the Tories apologised following a backlash from MPs and peers from across the political spectrum describing the statement as “appalling” and “nasty”, while Reform branded it “gutter politics”.
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