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Former UK government minister Zahawi defects to Reform from Conservatives

Former British finance minister Nadhim Zahawi defected to Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party from the Conservative Party on Monday, saying the country was broken and needed Farage as prime minister to fix it.

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Former British finance minister defects to Reform UK, backing Farage for PM

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Ex-UK finance minister Zahawi switches to Reform party

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Britain's shifting political scene: defections to Nigel Farage's Reform

Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party is benefiting from a raft of high-profile defections from the centre-right Conservative party, with Robert Jenrick the biggest name yet to announce he is swit...

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Former Tory named as new Reform UK leader in Scotland

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Reform UK announces MORE defections as Nigel Farage welcomes a slew of new councillors including an ex-BBC reporter, an Iraqi hostage, and a switcher from the Greens

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Full list of Tories who have defected to Farage’s Reform after Jenrick officially joins

Former Tory justice secretary Robert Jenrick has joined Reform UK, hours after he was sacked by Kemi Badenoch for “plotting in secret to defect”

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Lord Malcolm Offord named as Reform UK's first Scottish leader

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Nigel Farage suggests referendum could take place in 2030s

All the former Tories who have defected to Reform UK

Just this week alone, Nigel Farage's insurgent Reform UK welcomed two high-profile former Conservative politicians.

Courthouse News Service

Former UK chancellor defects to Reform as far right courts disaffected Conservatives

Nadhim Zahawi, who was briefly chancellor under Boris Johnson, once said he would be frightened to live in a country run by Nigel Farage.

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Who has defected to Reform UK from the Conservatives and why?

Robert Jenrick has become the latest Tory MP to defect to Reform UK, making a scathing attack on his former party as he did so. Accusing the Conservatives of lacking “stomach for the radical change this country needs”, the ex-shadow justice secretary is perhaps the most senior figure in the party to jump ship.

The Print

UK Opposition leader dramatically sacks shadow minister over far-right defection plot

The UK’s Opposition Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch on Thursday dramatically sacked her shadow justice secretary with a social media video post, claiming to have discovered “irrefutable” evidence of his plans to defect to the far-right Reform UK.