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. The party has lost all contact with the membership. They are just out of touch with the membership. If she did leave, she would probably take half the membership with her.
Crikey. Anderson’s olive branch offering comes after rumours of a possible defection by Braverman began to circulate earlier this month, and both Tory MPs and Reform members believe Braverman could leave the party she joined as a teenager. One Reform insider conspiratorially told the i newspaper that ‘we expect her to take a tilt at the Tory leadership and then come over to us, perhaps in the autumn around conference time’, adding: ‘She’ll fit in well.’ How curious.
So will the warm words of an experienced defector persuade Braverman to jump ship? Watch this space…
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