LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – British lawmaker Suella Braverman, who was interior minister between 2022 and 2023, has joined Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party from the Conservatives, she said at a press conference on Monday.
Braverman is a sitting lawmaker and becomes the latest Conservative to join Reform after former Conservative Party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick announced he was defecting earlier this month.
The anti-immigration Reform UK is ahead of both Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour and Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives in opinion polls ahead of an election due in 2029.
(Reporting by Sarah Young, editing by William James)
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