{"id":1110,"date":"2025-12-06T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:40:34","slug":"reform-uk-gains-its-first-peer-after-conservative-party-defection-reform-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK gains its first peer after Conservative party defection | Reform UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Reform UK has gained its first peer after a defection a from the Conservative party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Malcolm Offord was unveiled as Reform UK\u2019s latest recruit by party leader Nigel Farage during a rally in Falkirk on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The businessman served as a Scotland Office minister under the last government and until recently was treasurer of the Scottish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/conservatives\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Conservatives<\/a>. Offord confirmed his intentions to stand for Reform UK in next May\u2019s Holyrood elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Farage said he was \u201cdelighted\u201d to welcome Offord to the party. He called the peer\u2019s defection \u201ca brave and historic act\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Offord said in a speech that he wanted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/scotland\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Scotland<\/a> to be a \u201cprosperous, happy, healthy country\u201d. He added that he would campaign to \u201cremove this rotten SNP government after 18 years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Born in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Offord was made a life peer by former prime minister Boris Johnson in 2021. He previously donated almost \u00a3150,000 to the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>More <\/em><em>to follow \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Reform #gains #peer #Conservative #party #defection #Reform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK has gained its first&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}