Braverman blasts Tory ‘lies’ in revenge Reform defection
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Could the last Right-winger in the Conservative Party please turn out the lights?
Suella Braverman, former home secretary, has become the latest Tory to join Reform, telling a press conference: “I feel like I’ve come home”.
Camilla and Tim consider what is now left of the Conservatives and explain why Nigel Farage must avoid alienating the Tories so much that a Right-wing coalition becomes impossible.
Later, Keir Starmer has risked starting a Labour civil war after blocking Manchester mayor Andy Burnham’s bid to return to Westminster.
Former Labour MP Rosie Duffield tells The Daily T it is time for the "middle manager" PM to go and that she would return to the party if Burnham took the reins.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.8 | They started with five MPs, went down to four. |
| 0:13.1 | Now reform have got another MP. |
| 0:15.7 | The defection of Suella Braverman makes it eight. |
| 0:19.0 | We've got the inside scoop on how it all happened, |
| 0:21.9 | and will the last right-winger in the Conservative Party |
| 0:24.7 | please turn out the lights? |
| 0:26.7 | And Kier Stama is toast. |
| 0:28.9 | He might have blocked Andy Burnham, |
| 0:30.6 | but his critics say he won't survive the May local elections. |
| 0:34.3 | Former Labour MP Rosie Duffield tells us |
| 0:36.7 | that the Prime Minister is a middle |
| 0:38.1 | manager, he can't lead, and we need a new start. Welcome to the Daily Tea with me, Camilla |
| 0:43.6 | Tomini. And me, Tim Stanley. Not another one. |
| 0:58.1 | Fortune appears to have favoured the braverman. |
| 1:01.3 | Tim as Suella takes the plunge. |
| 1:04.3 | Yes. |
| 1:04.7 | What is she thinking? |
| 1:06.5 | We were going to go to the reform press conference this morning. |
| 1:09.4 | It was about veterans. |
| 2:04.3 | Nobody had tipped us off that suddenly the former Home Secretary was going to go to the reform press conference this morning. It was about veterans. Nobody had tipped us off that suddenly the former Home Secretary was going to storm the stage talking frankly about how much she hates the Conservatives and how much she loves Nigel Farage. There's a reform press conference every day of the week. Yes, I know. And this is the one occasion which I thought I've had enough. I know. Tell everyone where you were. I went instead to something called Prosper UK, which is the new wet Tory group. What are you thinking? David Gork, Amber Rudd. So I spent my morning eating ginger nudge with Ruth Davidson. Wow. And Andy Street, remember him, former mayor of Birmingham. Once at the helm of John Lewis. And my plan was to sketch that. And then I came back to the office and discovered that... I tell you what. But of course the cool kids had a cool defector. Why should that surprise me? That little cohort of conservatives there is Braverman's worst nightmare. It is. That's the interesting thing. Should we hear what she had to say about what Tories are like in secret? |
| 2:07.9 | That's the great tragedy with the Conservative Party. |
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