FORMER home secretary Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK in yet another blow to the Conservatives.

She told a rally of Reform party activists in London today that she had ended her 30-year membership of the Tories.

“I feel like I’ve come home,” she said, as she became the eighth sitting Conservative MP to join the hard-right party since the last election, closely following the defections of Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell.

Ms Braverman said she was joining Nigel Farage’s party with immediate effect, and would continue representing her constituency of Fareham and Waterlooville.

She said the “tragedy” of the Tories was that they had “great speeches, good slogans, but when the cameras are off, when the doors are shut and when they’re sat behind that table making difficult decisions for the country, they fold.”

Ms Braverman, who served as home secretary under Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, slammed her former colleagues as having “no courage, no backbone, no resolve.”

She had previously made pleas for the Tories to embrace Farage and called for a movement to “unite the right,” claiming that there was “not much difference” between Reform and Conservative policies.

Labour Party chairwoman Anna Turley MP said Ms Braverman’s move to Reform shows “Farage is willing to accept the very worst of the Conservative Party and exposes his complete lack of judgement.”

She added: “Suella Braverman helped botch Brexit and got sacked as home secretary.

“Nigel Farage is stuffing his party full of the failed Tories responsible for the chaos and decline that held Britain back for 14 years.”