The MP for Fareham and Waterlooville follows former Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick and veteran right-winger Andrew Rosindell in joining Nigel Farage’s populist force just this month. Danny Kruger moved over to Reform last September.
Farage, who is at pains to differentiate himself from the Conservative Party, said earlier this month his party will not accept defections after local elections in May.
“Today Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well,” Braverman said Monday, echoing rhetoric used by Jenrick in his defection speech.
“We stand at a crossroads. We can either continue down this route of managed decline to weakness and surrender. Or we can fix our country, reclaim our power, rediscover our strength. I believe that a better Britain is possible,” she added.
Braverman previously suggested Farage should be welcomed back into the Conservatives – but those overtures were rejected by the Reform leader. “I do like her, I do admire her, but I’m afraid at the moment all marriage plans are off,” he said ahead of the 2024 election, inviting her to instead join Reform UK.
Reform UK will now have eight MPs sitting in the House of Commons.
Braverman, who was one of the most right wing Conservative MPs before her defection, ran unsuccessfully to lead the Conservatives in 2022 after Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister.
This developing story is being updated.