Nadine Dorries defects to Nigel Farage's Reform saying Tory Party is dead

Former Tory frontbencher and I'm A Celeb star Nadine Dorries has defected to Reform UK.

Ms Dorries, who has spent more than two years trying to convince the world that Boris Johnson was the victim of a sinister Conservative plot, whined that her old party is "dead". In a brutal jibe at Kemi Badenoch she said: "The Conservative Party cannot win the next election. It removes election winning prime ministers, and replaces them with duds."

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