Reform UK Reveals Another Conservative MP Defection

Andrew Rosindell

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Reform UK has announced the second defection of a sitting lawmaker in a week to its party, as lawmaker Andrew Rosindell joined from the Conservatives.

Nigel Farage’s poll-leading party said Rosindell, who held the position of foreign affairs spokesman in the shadow cabinet of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, had joined due to the Conservatives’ “hypocritical position over the Chagos Islands.”