Former British finance minister Nadhim Zahawi defected to Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK Party from the Conservative Party on Monday, saying the country was broken and needed Farage as prime minister to fix it.
Zahawi, who had a short spell in charge of the nation’s finances under former prime minister Boris Johnson in 2022, becomes the latest in a long line of former Conservatives to switch to Farage’s populist Reform UK.
Reform is currently leading the polls in Britain, far ahead of…
Former UK finance minister Nadhim Zahawi defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
