LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - British lawmaker Suella Braverman, a former interior minister, became the latest prominent Conservative to join Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK on Monday, and she accused her former party of lying to voters over immigration.

New Labour campaign will remind voters that it is mostly former Conservative ministers jumping ship to Nigel Farage’s party

Britain's Conservative Party faces fresh turmoil as leader Kemi Badenoch sacks justice spokesperson Robert Jenrick

LONDON (AP) — Britain's Conservative Party, which governed the country from 2010 until it suffered its worst-ever electoral defeat two years ago, was plunged into fresh turmoil Thursday after its leader sacked the man widely seen as her greatest rival for apparently plotting to defect to a rival right-wing party.

By any measure, Kemi Badenoch’s decision to pre-emptively turf Robert Jenrick from the Conservative Party was a moment of steel, a decision both courageous and necessary. The former shadow justice secretary was ultimately revealed to be conspiring with Reform to defect in a way calculated to inflict maximum damage;

Robert Jenrick has now dubbed the Conservative Party "totally irrelevant in Nottinghamshire" just days after stepping down from its top team.