Following Suella Braverman’s defection, the party has eight MPs – half of them are Tories who left for the turquoise blue in this Parliament alone. They have more of Liz Truss’s cabinet in their team than Kemi Badenoch has in her shadow cabinet.
https://conservativehome.com/2026/01/27/bravermans-defection-exposes-a-different-tory-malaise/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%20for%20Tuesday%20the%2027th%20January%202026&utm_content=Newsletter%20for%20Tuesday%20the%2027th%20January%202026+CID_b711a04aa00550ed1009f10aee41a526&utm_source=Daily%20Email&utm_term=Bravermans%20defection%20exposes%20a%20different%20Tory%20malaise

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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