The previous leader, Guy Aston, resigned in November following a disagreement within the group.

Party’s pitch to voters in May Holyrood elections dismissed as ‘profoundly unserious, almost comically so’ by IPPR Scotland head

Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has defected to the hard-right Reform UK party. She resigned her 30-year membership with the Conservative Party and will now represent her southern England constituency as a Reform member.

Reform UK has grown from a fringe euroskeptic movement into a major force in British politics. By railing against immigration and the rising cost of living, the party led by Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage has siphoned support from the governing Labour party and Conservative opposition to fracture the old two-party system.

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman becomes the third sitting Tory MP to join Nigel Farage's party in the last eleven days, and takes Reform's tally of MPs to eight.

Former Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman is the latest MP to defect to Reform UK. Here are the others.

Reform UK’s candidate for the London mayoral election has been criticised for her “baffling” recreation of Donald Trump’s AI-generated image of him walking with a penguin in Greenland. Last week, the White House posted a controversial image showing the US president walking through snow with a penguin holding a US flag.

The MP was unveiled as the party's latest recruit by leader Nigel Farage at a rally.