Braverman calls on Tories and Reform to 'unite the right'

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has had a rather good few months, with a number of opinion polls showing the Clacton MP’s party topping the Tories – and, occasionally, even Labour – among Brits. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has rubbished the idea of a Reform merger – but it would appear her backbench colleague Suella Braverman has other ideas…

Speaking in Washington DC, the former Tory Home Secretary lauded Donald Trump’s style of ‘unfiltered conservatism’ and said her party should follow his lead in making the ‘unsayable mainstream’. She insisted the ‘formula to beat Labour’ involved the Tories and Reform working together. ‘I like Nigel Farage,’ Braverman told the Telegraph before stressing that ‘there isn’t enough space in British politics for two conservative parties’. Going on, the ex-Cabinet minister declared her support for certain Reform policies, including leaving the ECHR and pushing a ‘very low and robust approach to migration’.

Braverman added: