Lord Offord and Nigel Farage, Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC

Laura Kuenssberg put a senior Tory on the spot with the obvious question behind the high number of politicians leaving the Conservatives and joining Reform UK this morning.

Nigel Farage’s party announced they had secured another defection from the Tories on Saturday after Lord Malcolm Offord declared he had swapped parties.

He joined Reform’s rally in Scotland to declare that he had become the party’s first ever member of the House of Lords.

However, he did also announce at the weekend that he was going to stand down from the Lords and campaign as a Reform candidate in the 2026 Holyrood elections.

The move comes as a major blow to the Tories considering he was the serving Treasurer of the........

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