Posted on 09/04/2025 1:25:10 PM PDT by RandFan
Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has defected to Reform UK.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, the ex-MP for Mid-Bedfordshire said: "The Tory Party is dead. Its members now need to think the unthinkable and look to the future."
Dorries served as culture secretary and as a health minister under Boris Johnson, of whom she was a close ally.
She is the latest in a string of defections from the Conservatives to Reform UK, including former Welsh Secretary David Jones and ex-Tory Chairman Sir Jake Berry.
A Conservative Party spokesman said: "We wish Nadine well."
Dorries' defection comes as Reform members head to Birmingham for the party's annual conference, which starts on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
You would think some Conservative MPs would switch to Reform now.
They will start to change sooner or later
The writing is on the wall
Only aging parishioners and yuppies will continue to vote Conservative.
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