Susanna Siddell
Guest Reporter
Suella Braverman's husband has become the latest to join Reform UK to campaign for Nigel Farage's party.
Sources from the populist party confirmed that the husband of the former Home Secretary was set to join the organisation as a senior campaigner, supporting farmers in the face of the Chancellor's inheritance tax raid.
While the defection is expected to bring swirling speculation throughout Westminster that the Conservative MP was next in line to join Reform, Braverman was quick to shut down rumours.
She said: “My husband and I have a healthy respect for each other’s independence – he doesn’t tell me how to do my job, and I don’t tell him how to pick a political party.”
Announcing his decision online, he said: "I have left the Conservative Party because it has become a shadow of what it once stood for.
"Its incompetence and failure to deliver have betrayed the trust of the British people.
"I deeply regret that it has come to this, as there are still a handful of decent MPs trying to do the right thing.
"I believe in politics driven by conviction and a genuine commitment to serving our nation, not by empty promises and mismanagement."
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His decision has followed the defections of former Tory minister Andrea Jenkyns and ex-Conservative Home editor Tim Montgomerie to Reform UK after Nigel Farage announced that the party had surpassed 100,000 members across 400 different branches scattered across the country.
The wave of Tory departures has also come as support has started to snowball for Farage's party, with one poll indicating that support for his party has overtaken that of Starmer's Labour, which has now fallen to third place.
According to national pollster Find Out Now, support for Reform stood around 24 per cent, while Labour dropped to 23 per cent as the Tories edge ahead at 26 per cent.
After the shocking news, Reform UK's chairman Zia Yusuf declared that his party is on track to win the next General Election in 2029.
Speaking after news of Braverman’s defection, Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice said earlier: “More and more people are coming over to Reform from both Labour and the Tories as they recognise only Reform can save Britain.”
His words echoed those of his party's leader at the The Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards last week, when Farage declared: “At the next election in 2029 there will be hundreds of newcomers under the Reform UK label.
"We are about to witness a political revolution the likes of which you’ve not seen since Labour after the First World War.”
Yusuf has said that the party now has 105,000 members.
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Sources from the populist party confirmed that the husband of the former Home Secretary was set to join the organisation as a senior campaigner, supporting farmers in the face of the Chancellor's inheritance tax raid.
While the defection is expected to bring swirling speculation throughout Westminster that the Conservative MP was next in line to join Reform, Braverman was quick to shut down rumours.
She said: “My husband and I have a healthy respect for each other’s independence – he doesn’t tell me how to do my job, and I don’t tell him how to pick a political party.”
Announcing his decision online, he said: "I have left the Conservative Party because it has become a shadow of what it once stood for.
"Its incompetence and failure to deliver have betrayed the trust of the British people.
"I deeply regret that it has come to this, as there are still a handful of decent MPs trying to do the right thing.
"I believe in politics driven by conviction and a genuine commitment to serving our nation, not by empty promises and mismanagement."
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His decision has followed the defections of former Tory minister Andrea Jenkyns and ex-Conservative Home editor Tim Montgomerie to Reform UK after Nigel Farage announced that the party had surpassed 100,000 members across 400 different branches scattered across the country.
The wave of Tory departures has also come as support has started to snowball for Farage's party, with one poll indicating that support for his party has overtaken that of Starmer's Labour, which has now fallen to third place.
According to national pollster Find Out Now, support for Reform stood around 24 per cent, while Labour dropped to 23 per cent as the Tories edge ahead at 26 per cent.
After the shocking news, Reform UK's chairman Zia Yusuf declared that his party is on track to win the next General Election in 2029.
Speaking after news of Braverman’s defection, Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice said earlier: “More and more people are coming over to Reform from both Labour and the Tories as they recognise only Reform can save Britain.”
His words echoed those of his party's leader at the The Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards last week, when Farage declared: “At the next election in 2029 there will be hundreds of newcomers under the Reform UK label.
"We are about to witness a political revolution the likes of which you’ve not seen since Labour after the First World War.”
Yusuf has said that the party now has 105,000 members.
Find Out More...