{"id":446261,"date":"2026-01-30T00:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446261\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:51:28","slug":"former-british-home-secretary-suella-braverman-defects-to-reform-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446261\/","title":{"rendered":"Former British home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The political fallout continues in the UK, after former British home secretary Suella Braverman became the latest MP to defect from the Conservatives to join Nigel Farage&#8217;s Reform UK party this week.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s the fourth sitting Conservative MP to defect to the right-wing populist, anti-immigration party since the last election, building momentum for Mr Farage&#8217;s bid to become the U-K&#8217;s next prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: John Rentoul, The Independent&#8217;s Chief Political Commentator.\u00a0Producer: Pip Cook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The political fallout continues in the UK, after former British home secretary Suella Braverman became the latest MP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515,113926,58654,231398,29717,21173,3586],"class_list":["post-446261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-nigel-farage","tag-radio-national-breakfast","tag-rnb","tag-sally-sara","tag-uk-politics","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}