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 England.

Leader Nigel Farage made the surprise announcement at a rally of party activists in central London.

Braverman told Reform supporters he was also resigning from his 30-year Tory membership, adding: “I feel like I’ve come home.”

He becomes the fourth Conservative Party MP to join the party since the last election and became the third this month, along with Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosunull.

The departure brings Reform’s current number of MPs to eight.

Braverman told Reform supporters: “England is truly torn apart. It is suffering. It is not good.

“Immigration is out of control. Our public services are collapsing. People don’t feel safe.

“We cannot even defend ourselves and our nation remains weak and humiliated on the world stage.

“So we are at a crossroads. We can either continue on this path of controlled decline towards weakness and surrender. Or we can fix our country, take back our power, rediscover our power.”