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.

The Fareham and Waterlooville MP was unveiled as the party’s latest recruit by leader Nigel Farage at a rally for activists in central London.

Announcing that she had resigned as a Tory MP, she told Reform supporters: “I feel like I’ve come home.”

She becomes the fourth sitting Tory MP to join the party since the last election, and the third this month, alongside Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell.

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