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Braverman’s defection exposes a different Tory malaise | Conservative Home

As Reform absorbs disgruntled ex-ministers and new groups jockey for influence, Badenoch’s Conservatives remain a party of the right — but one that has yet to find its voice.

Conservative Home
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/737660
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party

When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their elected official.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
That noise? The sound of the barrel getting scraped. Only last summer, Reform insiders were briefing the rightwing media that the party would never welcome Suella Braverman into its ranks. Too much baggage. Too out of control
#JohnCrace #ThePoliticsSketch
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/26/suella-makes-the-ultimate-sacrifice-as-she-ditches-tories-for-reform?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Suella makes the ultimate sacrifice as she ditches Tories for Reform

Most of those at Monday’s event had to remind themselves that Braverman hadn’t defected long ago

The Guardian
Emmanuel Macron’s allies have blamed Brexit for Sir Keir Starmer’s “appeasement” of Donald Trump over Greenland.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/macron-allies-blame-brexit-starmer-151032639.html
Macron allies blame Brexit for Starmer’s weakness over Trump

Emmanuel Macron’s allies have blamed Brexit for Sir Keir Starmer’s “appeasement” of Donald Trump over Greenland.

Yahoo News
There’s no turning back now. That was the message from European leaders who gathered in Brussels for an emergency summit in response to Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-leaders-agree-independent-europe-summit-emmanuel-macron-friedrich-merz/
This was the moment EU leaders agreed Europe must go it alone

A subdued gathering in Brussels became a wake for a decades-old world order that’s slipping away.

POLITICO
Along comes Trump and our emperors have no clothes
There’s no shame in not knowing what he’ll say next: neither does he. But that didn’t stop many claiming to make sense of it.
#JohnCrace #PoliticsSketch
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/22/trump-european-leadership-emperors-no-clothes?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Along comes Trump and our emperors have no clothes

There’s no shame in not knowing what he’ll say next: neither does he. But that didn’t stop many claiming to make sense of it

The Guardian
Self proclaimed 'man of the people' Nigel Farage has been found to have breached the MPs’ code of conduct 17 times after repeatedly failing to declare his financial interests on time.
https://leftfootforward.org/2026/01/full-list-of-what-nigel-farage-failed-to-declare-on-time-from-promoting-gold-bullion-to-income-from-gb-news/?mc_cid=9d6861f74b&mc_eid=8ce605cd77
Full list of what Nigel Farage failed to declare on time, from promoting gold bullion to income from GB News

Among the incidents, he logged six payments from GB News late, including one lump sum of £51,438 reported 36 days after the deadline.

Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Starmer’s calm diplomacy makes mistake of assuming Trump is a sentient being.
PM’s effort to take heat out of Greenland situation is yet another humiliation in his relationship with The Donald.
#JohnCrace #TheGuardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/19/starmer-calm-diplomacy-mistake-trump-sentient-being?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Starmer’s calm diplomacy makes mistake of assuming Trump is a sentient being

PM’s effort to take heat out of Greenland situation is yet another humiliation in his relationship with The Donald

The Guardian
Statement on Trump and Greenland
The UK and its European neighbours have a long history of standing up to bullies, writes European Movement UK CEO, and former Minister for the Armed Forces, #SirNickHarvey.
#EMUK
https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk/statement_trump_greenland
Residents of Nigel Farage’s Clacton constituency don’t think he’s around enough and have described him as a “rude, ignorant man”.
#BrexitCarnage
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/visited-nigel-farages-constituency-voters-36525235#google_vignette
We visited Nigel Farage's constituency and voters had the same complaint

The criticism comes after The Mirror revealed the Reform UK leader has trousered thousands in cash and jetted more than 50,000 miles across the globe since the election

Daily Mirror