4 h. ago Donor who funded Kemi Badenoch's leadership campaign defects to Reform

Mark Gallagher is now backing Reform UK in blow to Tory leader at the start of her party conference

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5 h. ago Tory conference 2025 live: Badenoch donor defects to Farage’s Reform ahead of her conference speech

Conservative leader set to announce series of hardline policies on first day of party conference including special task force to deport 750,000 illegal immigrants

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30 h. ago Tory London Assembly member Keith Prince defects to Reform UK

Tory London Assembly member Keith Prince defects to Reform UK  BBC

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31 h. ago Top London Tory defects to Reform and 'charismatic' Nigel Farage in blow to Kemi Badenoch on eve of party conference

London Assembly member Keith Prince says Reform ‘has a vision’ - while the Conservative party ‘is not the party I joined 49 years ago’

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52 h. ago Michelle Mone told us ‘business isn’t easy’ during Covid. How are things now, your ladyship? | Marina Hyde

After a company she was linked to was ordered to repay £122m it made from pandemic deals, the baroness has embarked on a masterclass in victimhoodBy their own accounts, there have been two Westminster-adjacent victims of inflammatory language this week. One is the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, hurt to the point of requiring smelling salts by some politically commonplace words spoken by the prime minister. And the other is legally besieged bra baroness Michelle Mone, who has always been performatively sensitive, with chaos as her rising sign.Alas, far from their shared victimhood drawing our two snowflakes closer together, in Michelle, we may have finally found the Tory from whom Nigel would not accept a defection to Reform. Which really means something, considering Britain’s would-be next prime minister currently has precisely zero peers in the House of Lords. Like the PPE she provided during the pandemic, Michelle would be deemed incredibly expensive and absolutely unusable.Marin...

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54 h. ago Kemi Badenoch blasts Tory splitters 'who want to be a notch on Nigel Farage’s bed post'

Embattled Tory leader Kemi Badenoch sought to downplay the impact of a steady flow of defections from Conservative ranks to Nigel Farage's Reform party

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3 d. ago Badenoch brushes off defection of former Tory armed forces minister to Reform

Sarah Atherton lost her seat in last year’s general election.

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9 d. ago Defecting from Tories to Reform ‘not enjoyable’, Danny Kruger says

Kruger told BBC Radio 4’s Political Thinking he had hurt “good friends” as a result of the “painful” decision.

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2 w. ago Tory rebel sets up 'countdown clock' to day Kemi Badenoch will be toppled as leader

News about the account on X, named @kemicountdown, follows a week in which the Tory leader was hit by a fresh wave of defections to Reform UK.

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2 w. ago I respect Kemi but the Tory Party is over. Conservatism is not: Reform's newest MP Danny Kruger reveals all

With Reform UK having its fair share of unusually fractious conspiracists, the defection of sober, God-fearing Tory MP Danny Kruger (pictured) could not be more opportune for Nigel Farage.

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2 w. ago Labour councillor who once cited Barack Obama as a role model and championed gay rights becomes party's first direct defector to Reform in England with blast at Keir Starmer

Councillor Mason Humberstone said Labour was 'lost' and had forgotten about 'ordinary, hardworking people' as he crossed the floor on Stevenage Borough Council.

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2 w. ago Tories facing ‘rough and bumpy time’, Badenoch concedes after defections

East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger, who had sat on Kemi Badenoch’s front bench as a shadow welfare minister, defected to Reform on Monday.

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2 w. ago Maria Caulfield becomes latest senior Tory to defect to Reform UK

Former health minister announces decision a day after MP Danny Kruger joined Nigel Farage’s partyUK politics live – latest updatesAnother senior Conservative has defected to Reform UK, with the former health minister Maria Caulfield saying she signed up to Nigel Farage’s party a month ago.Although Caulfield is no longer an MP after losing her Lewes seat to the Liberal Democrats last year, it is another blow for the Tories, a day after Danny Kruger, a sitting Tory MP and shadow work and pensions minister, announced he had moved to Reform. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Former Tory health minister Maria Caulfield defects to Reform UK

Move comes a day after Conservative MP Danny Kruger joined Nigel Farage’s party

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2 w. ago Maria Caulfield defects to Reform as Nigel Farage claims another former Tory minister

Pressure on Kemi Badenoch as ex-Conservative MP becomes the latest to join Farage’s party

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2 w. ago Former Tory minister defects to Reform in latest blow for Kemi Badenoch

It comes just a day after Tory MP Danny Kruger also made the leap to Reform

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2 w. ago Maria Caulfield, former Tory health minister, defects to Reform — UK politics live

Caulfield says ‘the future is Reform’ as second Conservative MP in a week leaves for Nigel Farage’s partyVikram Dodd is the Guardian’s crime correspondent.Police expect to arrest 50 more people following Saturday’s large far-right-led march through London, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police said this morning.If you are Conservative right-minded, then the future is Reform. The country is going to change a lot. The same people who thought that Brexit would not happen think that Reform will not happen. They are in for a shock. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Fears grow that other senior Tory MPs will join Reform as defector Danny Kruger declares the Conservatives are over

Fears of a Conservative exodus are growing within the party after one of its key thinkers quit to join Reform UK.

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2 w. ago Who are the other potential Tory defectors to Reform UK? Other top Conservatives are tipped to join Nigel Farage's party following Danny Kruger's switch

Reform leader Nigel Farage said Danny Kruger would head up his party's efforts to prepare for Government.

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2 w. ago Top Starmer aide resigns over explicit Diane Abbott messages in further blow to PM – UK politics live

Director of strategy Paul Ovenden quits to avoid becoming ‘distraction’ after details of derogatory emails emergeNigel Farage has announced that Danny Kruger has defected to Reform UK from the Tories. Kruger, MP for East Wiltshire, is a leading social conservative, and co-chaired the New Conservatives group in the last parliament with Miriam Cates.Farage said that Kruger would be in charge of preparing the part for government. Continue reading...

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