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Suella Braverman gives a speech at Fareham Leisure Centre in Fareham, Hampshire, July 5, 2024
THE Conservatives and Reform UK must form a united right-wing bloc, according to Tory former home secretary Suella Braverman.
Speaking from Washington following Donald Trump’s inauguration, Ms Braverman said that there was no room for two conservative parties in British politics.
Her intervention comes as many Tory MPs worry about Kemi Badenoch’s leadership, not three months old, and her failure to impact Reform’s polling numbers.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
