{"id":391287,"date":"2026-01-26T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391287\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:08:12","slug":"ex-tory-home-secretary-suella-braverman-defects-to-reform-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391287\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768396634_100_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1bd0bcc0-fab3-11f0-853f-a9fc22104916.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Reuters Suella Braverman at a Reform UK rally\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Leader Nigel Farage made the surprise announcement at a rally for party activists in central London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Braverman told Reform supporters she had also resigned her Tory membership of 30 years, adding: &#8220;I feel like I&#8217;ve come home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She becomes the fourth sitting Tory MP to join the party since the last election, and the third this month, alongside Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The defection brings Reform&#8217;s current tally of MPs to eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Braverman told Reform supporters: &#8220;Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Immigration is out of control. Our public services are on their knees. People don&#8217;t feel safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We can&#8217;t even defend ourselves, and our nation stands weak and humiliated on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;So 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.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK. Leader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-391287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}