Suella Braverman has defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK, Nigel Farage has announced.

“I feel like I’ve come home,” she told an audience of veterans at a Reform event.

“Today I’m announcing that I’m resigning the Conservative whip… I am joining Reform UK,” she said.

Braverman served as home secretary in the Conservative governments of Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.

She was in the Home Office at the same time as Robert Jenrick, who defected to Reform on 15 January.

She is now Reform’s eighth MP.

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