Nigel Farage calls on Suella Braverman to ditch the Tories and join Reform UK

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Nigel Farage has urged Suella Braverman to ditch the Tories and join Reform UK forward of this 12 months’s basic election.

The former UKIP chief challenged Ms Braverman, who was sacked as residence secretary by Rishi Sunak, to take into consideration “whether she is in the right party”.

Mr Farage mentioned the Conservatives won’t ever pull Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights, one thing Ms Braverman has referred to as for, and mentioned she ought to think about becoming a member of the rebel right-wing occasion.

Mr Farage arrange Reform UK as the Brexit Party in 2018, handing the management to fellow Brexiteer Richard Tice in 2021.

It poses a major risk to Mr Sunak at the basic election as, whereas it could not win any seats, it might deprive the Tories of majorities in dozens of constituencies.

It at present has the backing of round 10 per cent of the voters, attracting voters upset with the authorities’s dealing with of immigration and the financial system.

Speaking to GB News, Mr Farage mentioned he would welcome Ms Braverman to the occasion.

He mentioned: “Let’s be honest, there is no Conservative Party. They stand up and pretend to be Conservative occasionally but always govern like liberals.

“Are we, in Brexit Britain, a self-governing, self-determining nation? Probably not.

“You can say Labour are worse than the Tories, and they probably are, but the Tories are pretty awful. They won’t even contemplate, as a party, leaving the ECHR which we have to do because that will be true to the spirit of Brexit.”

He added: “It’s all well and good for Suella to come out now, as a former Home Secretary, to say we should do this. Maybe Suella should be asking herself whether she’s in the right party.

“Richard Tice runs Reform, I am merely the honorary president: I am non-executive, I have no fiduciary responsibility so it’s not up to me.

“But would I like to see Suella join Reform? Of course I would.”

Mr Farage’s intervention comes amid fevered hypothesis that Lee Anderson, who was suspended as a Tory MP after an Islamophobic rant about London mayor Sadiq Khan, will defect to Reform.

The ex-Tory deputy chairman has met Mr Tice and has repeatedly refused to rule out becoming a member of the occasion.

And the feedback come days after former Tory PM Liz Truss mentioned Mr Farage, who’s the honorary president of Reform, ought to rejoin the Tories to “help turn our country around”.

Mr Farage give up the Conservative Party in 1992 after John Major signed the Maastricht Treaty.

Mr Sunak has left the door open for his potential return, refusing to rule it out. But Mr Farage has mentioned he’s not , lashing out at the Tories’ “big state, high tax” insurance policies.