Suella Braverman accuses Tories of betrayal as she defects to Reform UK
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The MP was unveiled as Reform's latest recruit by leader Nigel Farage at a rally, bringing the number of the party's sitting MPs to eight.

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.

She becomes 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.

Unveiled at a rally in London, Braverman told Reform supporters she had also resigned her Tory membership of 30 years, adding: “I feel like I’ve come home.”

Her defection comes hot on the heels of Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell, who also left the Conservatives earlier this month.

  • mjr@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    5 hours ago

    You’re just showboating because we’ve had nine Putin-friendly Reform UK policies so far:

    1. building more gas turbine power stations
    2. cutting stamp duty on the biggest properties
    3. pulling out of the European Defence Fund
    4. cancelling our human rights act
    5. repealing the Equalities Act
    6. “scrapping” the BBC
    7. stopping the boats (any method that really does it will be basically either impossible or illegal)
    8. defending our borders (more insular isolationism is what Putin really loves)
    9. deporting illegal migrants (which would quickly become an ICE-style scandal deporting natives who look different and dwarf the Windrush scandal)
    • makingrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      building more gas turbine power stations

      Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

      cutting stamp duty on the biggest properties

      I don’t think oligarcs are too concerned about a few extra thousand pounds to pay! Btw… Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

      pulling out of the European Defence Fund

      Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

      cancelling our human rights act

      Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

      repealing the Equalities

      Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

      “scrapping” the BBC

      As I already said, it’s the licence fee, not the BBC. The licence fee is unfit for 2026 and it should be scrapped.

      stopping the boats (any method that really does it will be basically either impossible or illegal)

      How is that a “putin policy”? Russia are the ones behind it - look at Baltic/Russian borders for illegal crossings facilitated by Russia and Belarus. Not a Russia friendly policy at all. You’re wrong.

      defending our borders (more insular isolationism is what Putin really loves)

      Listen to yourself. Which country in the world doesn’t defend their borders? Wrong

      deporting illegal migrants (which would quickly become an ICE-style scandal deporting natives who look different and dwarf the Windrush scandal)

      How tiresome. Is that Russia friendly? No. Wrong again!

      • makingrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I’ll save you replying to my requests for linkage. You were likely referencing their 2024 manifesto. I still disagree that those are “Puitin policies”, we clearly have different viewpoints and won’t persuade one another.