Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage announced the move at a rally for party activists in central London.
Braverman told supporters she had resigned her Conservative Party membership after 30 years, saying: “I feel like I’ve come home.”
She is the fourth sitting Conservative MP to join Reform UK since the last election, and the third to defect this month, following Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell. The move brings Reform UK’s total number of MPs to eight.
Addressing supporters, Braverman said Britain was “broken” and facing deep problems.
“Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well,” she said.
“Immigration is out of control. Our public services are on their knees. People don’t feel safe.
“We can’t even defend ourselves, and our nation stands weak and humiliated on the world stage.
“So we stand at a crossroads. We can either continue down this route of managed decline to weakness and surrender. Or we can fix our country, reclaim our power, rediscover our strength.”
