You spend ages waiting for a defection then two come along at once. On the same day that former Tory health minister Maria Caulfield defected to Reform, Mr S can reveal that Henry Smith, the former Conservative MP for Crawley, has also jumped ship. Smith was first elected to parliament in 2010 and was a member of a number of parliamentary committees – and will join Nigel Farage’s party as an ordinary member. Meanwhile his colleague, and former minister, Caulfield proclaimed on GB News this morning that ‘the future is Reform’.
She told the outlet that:
If you are Conservative right-minded, then the future is Reform. The country is going to change a lot. The same people who thought that Brexit would not happen think that Reform will not happen. They are in for a shock.
It was only yesterday that Tory MP and shadow work and pensions minister Danny Kruger joined Reform. His was the most significant defection in recent months, having first served as Boris Johnson’s political secretary before being elected in 2019 as the MP for East Wiltshire. As James Heale wrote on Monday, the Robert Jenrick backer has been an instrumental figure in the machinations of the Tory right over the past two years – and his move has been met with dismay from his former colleagues. Any more for any more?
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