Braverman refuses to rule out Reform defection

The general election may be done, but that doesn’t mean party drama has come to an end. Suella Braverman is back in the limelight today after an appearance on GB News in which she, er, refused to shut down rumours that she could defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. How curious…

The newly elected MP for Fareham and Waterlooville lamented her party’s fall from grace, telling Camilla Tominey that ‘we didn’t deliver on our promises and we were not a Conservative party’. She went on: 

Whoever’s leading the party, whoever’s in the party, needs to acknowledge this simple truth: we are facing an existential threat from Reform. And we need to change ourselves to ensure that we neutralise that threat, that we bring those people back home.

But when probed further by Tominey, who quizzed the former home secretary on why she doesn’t just join Reform, Braverman was a little less decisive. In an OpEd for the Telegraph published the day before the election, Braverman slammed