54
Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by MonsterMonster@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
32 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.

She becomes the third sitting Tory MP to join Nigel Farage's party in the last eleven days, and takes Reform's tally of MPs to eight.

Unveiled at a rally in London, Braverman told Reform supporters she had also resigned her Tory membership of 30 years, adding: "I feel like I've come home."

Her defection comes hot on the heels of Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell, who also left the Conservatives earlier this month.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] mjr@infosec.pub 1 points 11 hours ago

You're just showboating because we've had nine Putin-friendly Reform UK policies so far:

  1. building more gas turbine power stations
  2. cutting stamp duty on the biggest properties
  3. pulling out of the European Defence Fund
  4. cancelling our human rights act
  5. repealing the Equalities Act
  6. “scrapping” the BBC
  7. stopping the boats (any method that really does it will be basically either impossible or illegal)
  8. defending our borders (more insular isolationism is what Putin really loves)
  9. deporting illegal migrants (which would quickly become an ICE-style scandal deporting natives who look different and dwarf the Windrush scandal)
[-] makingrain@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

building more gas turbine power stations

Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

cutting stamp duty on the biggest properties

I don't think oligarcs are too concerned about a few extra thousand pounds to pay! Btw.. Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

pulling out of the European Defence Fund

Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

cancelling our human rights act

Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

repealing the Equalities

Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

“scrapping” the BBC

As I already said, it's the licence fee, not the BBC. The licence fee is unfit for 2026 and it should be scrapped.

stopping the boats (any method that really does it will be basically either impossible or illegal)

How is that a "putin policy"? Russia are the ones behind it - look at Baltic/Russian borders for illegal crossings facilitated by Russia and Belarus. Not a Russia friendly policy at all. You're wrong.

defending our borders (more insular isolationism is what Putin really loves)

Listen to yourself. Which country in the world doesn't defend their borders? Wrong

deporting illegal migrants (which would quickly become an ICE-style scandal deporting natives who look different and dwarf the Windrush scandal)

How tiresome. Is that Russia friendly? No. Wrong again!

[-] makingrain@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I'll save you replying to my requests for linkage. You were likely referencing their 2024 manifesto. I still disagree that those are "Puitin policies", we clearly have different viewpoints and won't persuade one another.

this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
54 points (100.0% liked)

United Kingdom

5916 readers
308 users here now

General community for news/discussion in the UK.

Less serious posts should go in !casualuk@feddit.uk or !andfinally@feddit.uk
More serious politics should go in !uk_politics@feddit.uk.

Try not to spam the same link to multiple feddit.uk communities.
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric news, and should be either a link to a reputable source, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread.

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
tom@feddit.uk
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk
frankPodmore@slrpnk.net