Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.
Leader Nigel Farage made the surprise announcement at a rally for party activists in central London.
Braverman told Reform supporters she had also resigned her Tory membership of 30 years, adding: “I feel like I’ve come home.”
She becomes the third sitting Tory MP to join Reform this month, following Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell, and the fourth since the 2024 election.
An MP since 2015, Braverman was attorney general under Boris Johnson and became home secretary under Liz Truss in September 2022.
She was forced to step down from the role a month later, after it emerged she had sent an official document to a Tory colleague using her personal email.
Rishi Sunak re-appointed Braverman to the role just six days later upon entering Downing Street, and she became a major figure on the right of the party.
However she was sacked from the role the following year, over an article accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of pro-Palestinian protests in London.
Her defection brings Reform’s current tally of sitting MPs to eight.
Braverman told Reform supporters: “Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well.
“Immigration is out of control. Our public services are on their knees. People don’t feel safe.
“We can’t even defend ourselves, and our nation stands weak and humiliated on the world stage.
“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.”