Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1evq263e49o

Posted by StGuthlac2025

32 Comments

  1. Impressive that Farage has managed to find an individual almost as vile as he is. Surprised it took her so long

  2. Oh my goodness truly the rats are fleeing the ship. 

    Imagine that though, a party of “*totally-not Tories*”, comprised, almost entirely, of Tories. 

    I’m sure the addition of an ethnically Indian brown woman will go down like a cup of cold sick with their target demographic.

  3. They really are dredging up the bottom of a cesspit and marketing who they add as gold, aren’t they? Worst of the Tory party meets the worst of society.

  4. I cant wait for Reform to really shake up politics with their membership of ex-MPs from mainstream politics. 
    Some of which directly presided over the departments that utterly failed to control things like immigration, crime, prisons and the economy 

  5. SpottedDicknCustard on

    Short term gain for Reform as they pick up another seat but taking on Troy dregs is doing nothing but dilute their appeal.

  6. So it’s now crystal clear – Reform are the “Continuity Tories”.

    I find it so odd that the swivel-eyed right of the Tory party are FINALLY abandoning ship, when the party has the most right-wing leader it’s ever had, who was voted in by them.

    I guess it just serves to underline that these moves are being made for nothing more than naked self-preservation.

    Vote Reform get Tory should now be the mantra of every other political party.

    Edit: which makes me think.. how long till Boris defects? None more venal and self-interested than him.

  7. Perfect timing to distract ppl from the Labour infighting. What a terrible decision.

    What happened to that Labour defection they were gonna announce.

  8. Smooth-Quantity-7024 on

    How many more Tories need to join before their supporters think they might not be the fresh anti-estsblishment alternative they pretended they were?

  9. didn’t Suella say she would never join Reform oh well there you go then she can’t even tell the truth about that. If Reform was a Left Wing party the Trotskyist Entryism alarm bells would be ringing off the wall by now.

    If Farage takes anymore Tories he will find himself in trouble I suspect in 5 years Reform and the Conservatives will merge and Nigel will wonder where it went wrong.

  10. therealharbinger on

    Guess I am now a reformed conservative…

    Guess I’ll have to sit the next election out, suppose I could go with the Monster Raving Loony Party.

    £10 says Truss joins in the next two weeks. At that point…

    This is going to be a repeat of the last election, all Starmer had to do, was not fuck up enough to win. Everyone else is railroading themselves in the meantime.

    Seriously what is Cruella Braverman going to bring? More boat arrivals?

  11. Party made up of Farage, a load of people who have publicly said the n word in the last two weeks, and every Tory rat leaving a sinking ship. Bold new vision!

  12. This is only going to help the Tories in the long run.

    Kemi can just point to Reform and say “These are the very same people that you voted out due to incompetence over 14 years in charge”

  13. FragrantGearHead on

    Our Nige is building up quite the rogues gallery!

    “Are you a bigoted, incompetent failure? Yes? Welcome aboard!”

    Go on Nige, Liz T next, you know she’s thumping at the door shouting “Lettice In!”

  14. ChaiTeaAndBoundaries on

    1. The Con-Form Party
    2. The Re-Tory Party
    3. The Re-Servatives Party
    4. The Tory-Form Party

    The Reform party is becoming the retirement home for ex-Tory MPs. How are Reform members taking this? Because these ex-Tory MPs were in power during the last 14 years of the Tory Regime. How can they bring about change?

  15. if Reform wins the election it just proves this country is irredeemable. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me 100x and you get the British electorate

  16. Definitely_Human01 on

    Does anyone else think that defection should result in an immediate by-election?

    I think most people give a very large weighting to a candidate’s party when voting, so a change in party may very well cause them to feel their MP no longer properly represent them.

  17. PornFilterRefugee on

    If you’re a reform voter why would you vote for them at this point? They’ve literally just become the exact same people Reform were a protest vote against

  18. Wise-Youth2901 on

    The left over Conservative Party should move back in the direction of middle class professional Britain. Compete more with the Lib Dems than Reform. The Tory right is going to Reform anyway… The Tories should focus on winning back Tory leaning southern England. 

  19. Reform really is just the Bastard Tory party now, all the useless failed upwards Tories from the last government have now defected to reform

    It’s the conform party now.

    I have never hoped a party would fail in the polls as badly as this lot. honestly, at this point, i hope Kemi Badenochs Tories beat them in the election and i fucking hate the Tories, but i hate Reform and Nigel Grifter Farage even more.

  20. “Reform is not rescue charity for panicky Tory MPs, Farage says” -18th of January, 2026

  21. AllThatIHaveDone on

    > Announcing that she had resigned as a Tory MP, she told Reform supporters: “I feel like I’ve come home.”

    Of course you feel at home, you’re surrounded by everyone you used to work with! 🤣

  22. De_Dominator69 on

    Oh former Home Secretary Suella Braverman? Responsible for the record levels of mass migration seen under the last Tory Government? That Suella Braverman? The one whose policies Farage and Reform are oh so critical of??

  23. tothecatmobile on

    >Braverman told Reform supporters: “Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well.

    >”Immigration is out of control. Our public services are on their knees. People don’t feel safe.

    You were the Home Secretary.

    It was literally your job to manage those things.