All is not well in the Tory party these days. After a tumultuous election campaign which saw infighting frequently dominate the headlines, it seems that division and instability have followed the party into opposition too. On Sunday night, Suella Braverman announced that she would not be contesting the leadership, adamant that there would be ‘no point’ in running ‘when most of the MPs disagree with my diagnosis and prescription’. But not everyone is opposed to Braverman – and it seems that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party are rather interested in her next move…
Reform MP Lee Anderson has today insisted that Braverman would be accepted into the Farage-founded party if she wanted to defect, telling the Telegraph: ‘Suella knows where the true Conservatives sit in the chamber, and she is quite welcome to join us.’ How very interesting…
The Red Wall rottweiler went on:
I would say she was probably one of the three most popular Conservative MPs.
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