Another one bites the dust. Suella Braverman this morning was unveiled as the latest defector to Reform UK. The former home secretary told 600 attendees at the launch of ‘Veterans for Reform’ that she finally felt she had ‘come home’ by switching parties. Beaming on stage, she declared passionately that, ‘I believe with my heart and soul that a better future is possible for us, I am joining Reform UK.’

It certainly is striking how so many of the Tory right who bedevilled the dying days of Rishi Sunak’s government can now be found in Nigel Farage’s self-proclaimed ‘people’s army’

She then gave a 20-minute speech in which she declared ‘I am declaring time on Tory lies’ and ridiculed the party’s pledge to quit the European Convention on Human Rights, saying ‘half of [its] MPs’........

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