Another ex-Tory minister defects to Reform UK

Another erstwhile Conservative MP has defected to Reform UK.

Maria Caulfield, who served arsenic the MP for Lewes for astir a decade, arsenic good arsenic a authorities minister, is the 13th ex-Tory to articulation Nigel Farage's party, which continues to stitchery momentum.

The announcement of her determination connected Tuesday follows sitting MP Danny Kruger's determination to defect yesterday and caput up Reform's enactment to hole for government.

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Ms Caulfield, a erstwhile wellness minister, told GB News: "If you are Conservative right-minded, past the aboriginal is Reform. The state is going to alteration a lot.

"The aforesaid radical who thought that Brexit would not hap deliberation that Reform volition not happen. They are successful for a shock."

She added: "I person joined. My hubby joined a fewer months agone and I joined a period ago."

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