Conservative MP Danny Kruger has become the latest Tory to defect to Reform UK.
The Devizes MP has been made head of Reform’s new unit preparing the party for government, Nigel Farage announced on stage at a news conference.
Announcing his defection, Mr Kruger said: “The Conservative Party is over, over as a national party, over as the principal opposition to the left.
“But conservatism is not over.”
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