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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

BIZARRE: Reform given almost 1m by former tory donors in second quarter of 2025 - You Need To See This

Nadine Dorries
Nadine Dorries told the Daily Mail Conservative party members ‘need to think the unthinkable and look to the future’. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Nadine Dorries has defected to Reform on the eve of its conference, saying the Conservative party “is dead”.

The former Tory cabinet minister, a close ally of Boris Johnson when he was prime minister, served as culture secretary until 2022 before resigning a year later when blocked from getting a peerage.

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