British lawmaker Suella Braverman, a former home secretary, became the latest prominent Conservative to join Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK on Monday, and she accused her former party of lying to voters over immigration.
Opinion polls put Reform UK ahead of both Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives, the two parties that have dominated British politics for more than a century, though a national election is not expected until 2029.
For now, the anti-immigration Reform UK Party remains a small grouping in the House of Commons, the lower chamber, with Braverman’s defection taking their tally to eight. That compares with more than 400 Labour lawmakers in the 650-seat chamber.
“Britain is indeed broken,” a visibly emotional Braverman said at a Reform UK rally, appearing alongside Farage .
“We can either continue down this route of managed decline to weakness and surrender, or we can fix our country,” she said, accusing the Conservatives of lying about their pledge to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).