Former health minister announces decision a day after MP Danny Kruger joined Nigel Farage’s party
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Another senior Conservative has defected to Reform UK, with the former health minister Maria Caulfield saying she signed up to Nigel Farage’s party a month ago.
Although Caulfield is no longer an MP after losing her Lewes seat to the Liberal Democrats last year, it is another blow for the Tories, a day after Danny Kruger, a sitting Tory MP and the shadow work and pensions minister, announced he had moved to Reform.
A series of senior Conservatives have shifted over in recent months, although Kruger is so far the only one still in parliament.
