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ER Editor: And yet another defection from the UK Conservatives to Nigel Farage’s Reform party. It’s a curious move overall as it casts the Tories in a poor light, but it doesn’t necessarily do Reform any favours, either. See this comment from Gary Chappell of News Uncut (paywall) —
THE furore surrounding Reform – purported by some to be the saviour of sanity and restore glory to Great Britain – should have ended with the recruitment of former Conservative “Vaccines Minister” Nadhim Zahawi. (ER: He’s likely gone, given what we now know about those lethal shots.)
It was a shock move that led many former supporters to say they could never vote Reform.
But in a further move that strongly suggests pressure from globalist or establishment forces (ER: or the white hats?) leader Nigel Farage once claimed to oppose (ER: the original Farage was always one of them, a City of London dweller), Reform went on to recruit not only Robert Jenrick, but now Suella Braverman – senior Tories from a party Farage insisted had “betrayed Britain”.
Now it looks as though it is Farage who is betraying Britain. And he is not even in power.
That is because a vote for Reform, surely, will not get you what you desire, what you had hoped for. It will now get you the Tories Mark II. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. The so-called Uni-Party from which now, seemingly, the British public can never escape.
Popcorn time again.
Image searches of some of these people (e.g. Zahawi) show they’ve been replaced and we’re watching a movie, designed to out the political class while leaving the public utterly sick of them. Same old same old.
For an MSM take, here’s Peter Walker of The Guardian.
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Braverman accuses Tories of betrayal as she defects to Reform
PAUL SEDDON & KATE WHANNEL for THE BBC
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has accused the Conservatives of “betrayal” as she became the latest MP from the party to defect to Reform UK.
She is 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.
At a press conference following her defection, Braverman said she had felt “politically homeless for the best part of two years” pointing to differences over areas including Brexit and immigration.
Her defection comes hot on the heels of Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell, who also left the Conservatives earlier this month.
Responding to her defection, the Conservative Party said it was “always a matter of when, not if, Suella would defect”.
“There are some people who are MPs because they care about their communities and want to deliver a better country. There are others who do it for their personal ambition,” the spokesman added.
The party’s initial statement also said: “The Conservatives did all we could to look after Suella’s mental health, but she was clearly very unhappy.”
They later issued a corrected statement which removed the sentence, saying the original lines were “a draft version” which had been “sent out in error”.
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Asked about suggestions that Reform was accepting too many former Conservatives, Farage said: “We need the experience of people who were on the front line – that is the one commodity we are short of.”
A major figure on the right of the party under the last government, Braverman had long been seen as a potential Reform defector at Westminster.
But her unveiling as Reform’s latest recruit came as a surprise announcement by Farage during an event to launch a party group for military veterans in London.
An MP since 2015, Braverman was attorney general under Boris Johnson and became home secretary under Liz Truss in September 2022.
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Farage said he had been talking to Braverman for “just over a year” about the possibility of defecting and that she had “reached the view that actually the centre-right of British politics needs to unify around Reform”.
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In addition to the four sitting Conservative MPs who have now switched to Reform, around 20 former Tory MPs have made the move since the general election, including former ministers Nadhim Zahawi, Nadine Dorries and Jake Berry.
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Featured image source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/26/bravermans-predictable-defection-is-farages-biggest-political-gamble-yet
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