LONDON: Former British finance minister Nadhim Zahawi defected to Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK party from the Conservative Party on Monday, saying the country was broken and needed Farage as prime minister to fix it. Zahawi, who had a short spell in charge of the nation’s finances under former prime minister Boris Johnson in 2022, becomes the latest in a long line of former Conservatives to switch to Farage’s populist Reform UK.

Zahawi is the most senior former Conservative to join Nigel Farage’s party

Born to a Kurdish family in Iraq, Nadhim Zahawi rose to prominence first as Boris Johnson’s vaccines minister

The former Tory chancellor has become the latest former Boris Johnson ally to join Farage’s party

Nigel Farage reveals convert to party as former chancellor says UK ‘has reached a dark and dangerous chapter’

The former chancellor’s criticism of the Tory government is indisputable – but so is his role in its dire record, says Henry Hill, deputy editor of ConservativeHome

The controversial former Tory chancellor became the highest profile politician to defect to Reform UK on Monday

LONDON: Former British finance minister Nadhim Zahawi defected to Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK party from the Conservative Party on Monday, saying the country was broken…

Reform UK’s newest recruit said in 2015 he would be frightened to live in a Britain run by the party’s leader

As a member of Reform, Nadhim was adamant he had more to give. Even if none of us really wanted him

A Conservative spokesperson said that Reform UK was the party of ‘has-been politicians’