Former Conservative MP Marco Longhi has defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party. It comes as former Conservative minister Dame Andrea Jenkyns also switched sides to join the party. Mr Farage welcomed the news, saying Mr Longhi has "given up" on the Conservatives.
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00:00Marco Longhi, of course, was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Dudley from 2019 to
00:0424. Somebody who'd been a very successful businessman before getting into politics,
00:09and though he's been a long-term member of the Conservative Party, he's frankly given up on
00:14them. And I'm not surprised because no one knows where they stand on anything. We've got momentum
00:18behind us. During the course of December, the support for the party picked up in the most
00:24extraordinary way. 50,000 people joined the party in the last two weeks of the year, and you're
00:29beginning to see that reflected in these polls. And no, it's not froth. It's real. I think a lot
00:34of people have decided this Labour government doesn't know what it's doing, and the opposition
00:39Conservative Party, well, where do they stand on net zero? Where do they stand on legal immigration?
00:45Where do they stand on anything? And I think whilst we are very honest and analysing what
00:51is wrong with the country, we're very optimistic and very bullish about turning it round.