Reform UK has been torn apart on social media as it accepted yet another former Tory MP into the party.

Ben Bradley was the Conservative MP for Mansfield from 2017 to 2024, but lost his seat to Labour at the last general election.

Bradley, the former leader of Nottinghamshire county council, announced on Wednesday evening that trust in both Labour and the Conservatives was “gone and not coming back”.

“Successive governments have failed to deliver for so many people, and have demonstrated that they’re unwilling to actually deliver on key promises to voters,” he said.

Bradley is set to serve as Reform’s “head of local government” and work on the party’s “Doge” cost-efficiency campaign with deputy leader Richard Tice.

He was the former vice chair of the Conservative Party when Th

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