US to speak at anti-immigration foundation

SUELLA Braverman's defection to Reform UK is being sold as some brave act of ideological clarity.

- CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN

It's more like a cash-soaked audition for Britain's Trumpist fringe - imported extremism that poses a threat to our way of life.

Before jumping ship, she quietly accepted a £9,358 freebie trip from The Heritage Foundation. In return, the ex-Home Secretary gave its Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lecture, gushing about the hard-right organisation as a "giant towering over the policy think-tank landscape".

She also claimed the US-UK special relation ship was in tatters, blaming Labour.