❓WHAT HAPPENED: Former Home Secretary and ex-Attorney General Suella Braverman announced her decision to defect from the Conservative Party to join Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Suella Braverman, Nigel Farage, and the Conservative Party.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The announcement was made during a Reform UK rally on Monday.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well.” – Suella Braverman
🎯IMPACT: Braverman’s defection marks the third Conservative Member of Parliament to join Reform UK this month, increasing their presence in Parliament to eight MPs.
Britain’s former Home Secretary (Interior Minister) and Attorney General, Suella Braverman, has announced she is leaving the Conservative Party to join Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, becoming the third ‘Tory’ MP this month to defect to the party after Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell.
The move increases Reform UK’s representation in the House of Commons to eight seats and adds to growing pressure on the Conservatives amid internal divisions.
Speaking at a Reform UK rally, Braverman offered a bleak assessment of the country’s condition, saying, “Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well.” She blamed what she described as uncontrolled immigration, overstretched public services, and a lack of opportunity for younger generations, arguing that many young people are leaving the UK in search of better prospects abroad. Calling for a decisive change in direction, she told supporters, “We stand at a crossroads. We can either continue down this route of managed decline… or we can fix our country, reclaim our power, rediscover our strength.”
A Conservative Party spokesman dismissed Braverman’s decision as predictable, saying, “It was always a matter of when, not if, Suella would defect.”
Braverman previously served as Attorney General under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and later as Home Secretary during Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership. Long regarded as a prominent figure on the Conservative right, she said her decision to defect was driven by a desire for honesty and a belief that meaningful change could no longer be delivered from within her former party.
Her move comes as Reform UK continues to gain momentum both in Parliament and beyond. Led by Nigel Farage, the party has recently attracted a series of high-profile defections from the Conservatives and has claimed a rapid rise in membership, at one point reporting that it had overtaken the ruling leftist Labour Party in the number of paid members. Reform UK has portrayed this growth as evidence of widening public disillusionment with the main parties and increasing support for its platform on immigration, sovereignty, and institutional reform.
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