The former Conservative health minister Maria Caulfield has become the 15th former Tory MP to defect to Reform UK.

Caulfield served as the MP for Lewes for almost nine years before losing her seat to the Lib Dems in the Tory wipe-out last year.

James MacCleary, who won Caulfield’s Lewes seat for the Lib Dems last year, said: “Rather than offering solutions to the problems our country faces, Reform seems to be welcoming in the people that were responsible for causing them in the first place.” New Feature

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Caulfield, who returned to her nursing career after leaving Parliament, told GB News that “the future is Reform” and that the Conservative Party had become “less and less what I believe in.”

“If you are Conservative right-minded, the

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