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This is a global player original podcast. So we stand at a crossroads. We can either continue down this route of managed decline to weakness and surrender,

or we can fix our country, reclaim our power, rediscover our strength.

I believe that a better Britain is possible.

And because I believe that is possible, today I'm announcing that I resign the Conservative Whip.

That is the former Conservative Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, defecting to Reform UK in a not so surprising Monday Reform press conference. She has become the third sitting

Conservative MP to join Nigel Farage's party in little more than a week. She told the

reform crowd that she felt like she'd come home. But what is reform now, if not a dustbin for former failed conservatives?

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It's Lewis.

It's Emily.

And as we're saying there, Soella Braverman has now become the 18th current or former Conservative MP to defect to reform.

Perhaps not surprisingly, she is from the right of the party, perhaps not surprising at all.

It has been much speculated about for a while that she might do this.

She has been off the reservation, perhaps in every sense, for quite a while.

Now, she's not like Robert Jemrit was sitting within the shadow cabinet. She doesn't have a

significant following anymore insofar as she ever did within the Conservative Party.

But nonetheless, clearly, as a former Home Secretary and as part of a now quite long string

of Tory MPs, either current or former. It is damaging for

Camille Badnock and clearly is something that Nigel Farage is continuing to trumpet. And as she

resigned, we had a reminder from Lib Dem Daisy Cooper that Bravman was, in her words, so bad. She was

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