Former Conservative culture secretary Nadine Dorries has become the latest high-profile defection to Reform UK.

Boris Johnson loyalist Ms Dorries, who resigned from the House of Commons in 2023, said she was joining Nigel Farage's party, said she made the decision because her former party was now "dead".

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Writing in the Daily Mail, she said: "The time for action is now and I believe that the only politician who has the answers, the knowledge and the will to deliver is Nigel Farage."

She went on to say it was "time for change" and "time make Britain great again".

"My decision to leave the party I've served for more than 30 years is possibly the most difficult I've ever had to make, and it has taken me 12

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