Suella Braverman insists she has no plans to defect to Reform UK - but has been asked to in the past
Fareham and Waterlooville MP Suella Braverman has insisted that she has no plans to defect to Reform UK, despite sharing a platform with the political rivals today.
Ms Braverman appeared alongside Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice at an event hosted by the Prosperity Institute where she put forward a plan to leave the European Convention of Human Rights put forward by Conservative former home secretary.
It comes after warnings that leaving the ECHR, which Reform sees as necessary to enact the “mass deportations” it has planned, would breach the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) signed in 1998 which ended 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland.
But despite appearing alongside Mr Tice at the event, Ms Braverman was insistent that she was not planning to defect to Reform.
She said: “I’m not defecting. I’ve been elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament.”
But she did not deny that she had been approached about defecting by figures within Reform, a party which until recently counted her husband as a member.
Asked whether she had been approached, she said: “I have a lot of friends in Reform. My husband was very recently a member of Reform.
“I also have, breaking news, friends in the Liberal Democrats. I also know people in the Labour Party. I’m not defecting to Labour or to the Lib Dems. Let me just tell you that I’m not defecting.”