{"id":391319,"date":"2026-01-26T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391319\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:52:09","slug":"suella-braverman-defects-to-nigel-farages-reform-uk-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391319\/","title":{"rendered":"Suella Braverman defects to Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MP for Fareham and Waterlooville follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/kemi-badenoch-sacks-robert-jenrick-from-tory-top-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick<\/a> and veteran right-winger Andrew Rosindell in joining Nigel Farage\u2019s populist force just this month. Danny Kruger moved over to Reform last September. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well,\u201d Braverman said Monday, echoing rhetoric used by Jenrick in his defection speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p>Braverman previously suggested Farage should be welcomed back into the Conservatives \u2013 but those overtures were rejected by the Reform leader. \u201cI do like her, I do admire her, but I\u2019m afraid at the moment all marriage plans are off,\u201d he said ahead of the 2024 election, inviting her to instead join Reform UK.<\/p>\n<p>Reform UK will now have eight MPs sitting in the House of Commons. <\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s resignation as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>This developing story is being updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MP for Fareham and Waterlooville follows former Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick and veteran right-winger Andrew Rosindell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[144227,824,625,59,57,58,50,633,470,3852,634,56,54,55,636,637],"class_list":["post-391319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-andrew-rosindell","tag-boris-johnson","tag-british-politics","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-rights","tag-robert-jenrick","tag-suella-braverman","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-war","tag-westminster-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391319","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=391319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}