Three former Tory MPs defect to Farage’s Reform
Former Tory party deputy chair defects to Reform
- Three former Conservative MPs have defected to the Reform party, a source within Nigel Farage’s party has confirmed.
- The MPs are Jonathan Gullis, who represented Stoke-on-Trent North, Lia Nici, formerly Grimsby MP, and Chris Green, the former Bolton West Tory MP.
- Mr Gullis, a former Conservative Party deputy chairman and education minister, told the BBC he believes the party has “lost touch with the people it was meant to serve”.
- The defections are the first since Danny Kruger, the sitting MP for East Wiltshire, left the Conservatives for Reform in September.
- A Reform party source claimed the Conservative Party is “dead” and said that only Reform can defeat Labour in the next election.