British lawmaker Suella Braverman, who was interior minister between 2022 and 2023, has joined Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party from the Conservatives, she said at a press conference on Monday.
Braverman is a sitting lawmaker and becomes the latest Conservative to join Reform after former Conservative Party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick announced he was defecting earlier this month.
The anti-immigration Reform UK is ahead of both Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour and Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives in opinion polls ahead of an election due in 2029.