Key Tory defectors named in new Reform front bench

NIGEL Farage said Reform UK was “the voice of opposition” to Labour as he unveiled his party’s first frontbench appointments.

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Two Conservative defectors, Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, were given spokesperson roles along with senior Reform figures Richard Tice and Zia Yusuf.

Mr Jenrick, a former communities secretary under Boris Johnson, was named Reform’s economic spokesman barely a month after joining the party from the Tories.

Pledging to “oppose the wrecking ball that is Rachel Reeves and this Labour Government”, he said he would put together “the most comprehensive plan of any political party” to “fix Britain's broken economy” and cut the welfare bill.