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One says he believes the Conservative Party has ‘lost touch with the people it was meant to serve’
Joe MiddletonMonday 01 December 2025 10:37 GMTComments
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Three former Conservative MPs have defected to Reform, a source in Nigel Farage’s party has confirmed.
Jonathan Gullis, who represented Stoke-on-Trent North, Lia Nici, who served as Grimsby MP, and former Bolton West Tory MP Chris Green have all joined “on their own accord online”, a Reform party source confirmed to Press Association.
Mr Gullis is a former Conservative Party deputy chairman and education minister.
He told the BBC that he had been a member of the party for 18 years, but believes it has “lost touch with the people it was meant to serve”.
The former MP for Stoke-on-Trent North and education minister had been a party member for 18 years, but said he believed the party had "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve".
Jonathan Gullis is a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party (PA Media)The three defections are the first since Danny Kruger, the sitting MP for East Wiltshire, left the Tories for Reform in September.
A Reform party source said: “The Conservative Party is dead. Only Reform can beat Labour at the next election as the polls show time and time again.”
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