At a time of bleak headlines, there was at least some good news for Conservatives earlier today: Suella Braverman has finally left the party. As with the defection of Robert Jenrick earlier this month, the continued “self-purge” of the “out-Reform Reform” brigade can only help the electoral fortunes of the Conservative party. As I said in a previous article, “wreckers like Braverman are why the public don’t like us”.

For those of us who have long pointed out the utter failure of their strategy, it’s schadenfreude to see them leave a ship they themselves so effectively torpedoed. Reform UK is welcome to them. I suspect Nigel Farage will rue the day they came on board. Many Conservatives will hope they have the same record of failure at their new party as........

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