Former Conservative home secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest party MP to defect to Nigel Farage's Reform UK.
Braverman quit the Tories after 30 years as a member, telling Reform supporters at a rally: "I feel like I've come home."
She is the third sitting Conservative MP to defect to Reform this month, joining Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell, and bringing Reform's tally of MPs to eight.
The BBC reports Braverman told supporters: "Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well.
"Immigration is out of control. Our public services are on their knees. People don't feel safe.
"We can't even defend ourselves, and our nation stands weak and humiliated on the world stage.
"So we stand at a crossroads. We can either continue down this route of managed decline to weakness and surrender. Or we can fix our country, reclaim our power, rediscover our strength."