Jake Berry with Liz Truss during the Tory leadership election in 2022.

It was, according to Nigel Farage, a “very brave decision”.

The Reform UK leader for full of praise and admiration for Jake Berry, the former Tory chairman who has just defected to his party.

Farage was particularly impressed by Berry’s outspoken attack on the record of the Conservative government he served in.

Announcing his defection on X, Berry said: “Britain is broken. We literally live in a country where you can’t walk down the street with a phone in your hand.

“We have taxes that are so sky high that the brightest and best are leaving our country in droves, while at the same time a benefits system that is bringing the world’s poor to our shores with no control.

“If you literally wanted to design a system to destroy a country, you would struggle to do better. And I know who broke it, because I was there.”

He certainly was. During his 14 years as the Tory MP for Rossendale and Darwen, Berry served as a minister under no fewer than three prime ministers – Theresa May, his close friend Boris Johnson and........

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