Former Conservative cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has become the latest to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK after declaring that the “Tory Party is dead”.

In the most significant defection to date, Boris Johnson’s former Culture Secretary and best-selling author Nadine Dorries said that leaving the Conservative Party was the “most difficult decision” she’s ever had to make and had contemplated joining Nigel Farage’s Reform UK for the past 12 months.

Writing in the Daily Mail , the former MP for Mid-Bedfordshire said : “The Tory Party is dead. Its members now need to think the unthinkable and look to the future.”

“I believe you can feel a sense of dread taking hold of communities up and down the country,” Dorries continued. “The time for action is now, and I believe that the only

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