Indian-origin ex-British minister Suella Braverman joins far-right Reform UK
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She marks the latest high-profile Tory MP to join hands with Nigel Farage after ex-ministers Robert Jenrick and Nadhim Zahawi, taking the total Conservative MP defections tally to eight.
Suella Braverman, former UK home secretary in the previous Conservative Party-led government, on Monday defected to the anti-immigration Reform UK, saying she is "calling time" on the Tories for letting immigration get "out of control".
The 45-year-old Goan heritage member of Parliament for Fareham and Waterlooville in southern England revealed that she had resigned her 30-year Tory membership to be welcomed by far-right Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at a public event in London.
Braverman marks the latest high-profile Tory MP to join hands with Farage after ex-ministers Robert Jenrick and Nadhim Zahawi, taking the total Conservative MP defections tally to eight.
"I feel like I've come home... I’m calling time on Tory betrayal. I’m calling time on Tory lies. I’m calling time on a party that keeps making promises with zero intention of keeping them," said Braverman.
"Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well, immigration is out of control, our public services are on their knees, people don’t feel safe, our youngsters are leaving the country for better futures elsewhere."
"We can’t even defend ourselves, and our nation stands weak and humiliated on the world stage. So we stand at a crossroads. We can either continue down this route of managed decline to weakness and surrender or we can fix our country, reclaim our power, rediscover our strength," she said.
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