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Suella Braverman expected to defect to Reform as Tory leadership race heats up (inews.co.uk)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Conservative MP Suella Braverman is expected to quit the the party and join Nigel Farage’s Reform UK later this year, according to sources in both parties.

The right-wing former home secretary is struggling to command enough support to run for the Tory leadership when the race officially kicks off next week, after key allies abandoned her fledgling campaign.

She may even face the ignominy of failing to secure the numbers to get on the ballot paper as support within the parliamentary party leeches away to other right-wing candidates.

“We expect her to take a tilt at the Tory leadership and then come over to us, perhaps in the autumn around conference time,” a Reform source said. “She’ll fit in well.”

A senior Tory source told i: “There’s now so much antagonism towards Suella Braverman among MPs that there is now a generally held view that she will defect.

“If she does, it will be a clear admission that she could not win the leadership and does not have the support of any MPs in the party.” Ms Braverman, MP for Fareham and Waterlooville, denied the claim. A spokesman said: “Suella has only recently been elected as a Conservative MP and has been a Conservative Party member for three decades.”

Previously she has argued the Conservatives “need to” find a way of working with Reform, saying she would “welcome” Farage into the party, a stance other Tories view with disdain.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Defecting to the party whose own canvassers openly drop the word 'Paki' when think no one is listening is certainly... a choice.

The odds of a face-eating leopard moment are pretty good all round.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

She's super racist towards Pakistani people herself, and she's too dumb to know that most of her co-racists don't draw a distinction between where on the subcontinent someone's ancestors are from when they use such language.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Tory leadership race heats up in a similar way to last nights kebab.
With the same risk of limp lettuce.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This user has shown their appreciation for a joke.

[–] Weirdmusic 6 points 5 months ago

I can't help but think your comment has won some sort of prize. Perhaps the coveted "golden kebab".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

With the same risk of limp lettuce.

Honestly. I don't think even the tories are dumb enough to trust Truss...... Again

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember a time when British politics wasn't quite so wild.

Obviously here defecting would be a big deal but it feels like this is originating from people who want to further alienate her from the Tories and possibly some variety of devilry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It could be part of the ongoing Badenoch/Braverman pissing contest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Now there is an unpleasant mental image.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well that sounds like better news.

If insane bat shit tories like her feel the need to leave. Maybe tories are rejecting extremely right wing ideals as a solution.

So hopefully more sane central politics. And a split tory party for the next election. Witg reform yanking the real nutters from the party.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The problem is that Boris Johnson already made a fairly successful effort to purge the party of the non-nutters. And the party membership seems to be even more deranged than the post-purge and post-landslide-loss MPs. To ever get elected again, the Tories need to let members of the centre-right anti-Brexit faction back in, at a higher rate than the rabid right defects to Reform.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Achieving the rare feat of increasing the average IQ of both groups.