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Who is the 'well known' Labour figure Farage says will defect to Reform next week?
In a typical Nigel Farage tease, the Reform UK leader has said that a "well known Labour figure" will defect to his party next week.
But who? Notice that he said a "Labour figure" rather than "Labour MP". That perhaps suggests he means an ex-MP or a peer.
Or someone who's both. And after Nadhim Zahawi and Robert Jenrick this week, what about more Tory defectors.
Kemi Badenoch told Sky News she was "100% confident" there would be no more shadow cabinet defections. In both parties, it's fair to assume that candidates for defecting to Reform UK will be committed Brexiteers, socially conservative and - from Labour - Red Wallers or Blue Labour.
That narrows it down. In the 2016 referendum the two most high-profile pro-Brexit Labour MPs were Kate Hoey and Gisela Stuart, both awarded a peerage by Boris Johnson and both no longer Labour.
Kate Hoey Born in Norther Ireland, as MP for the inner London seat of Vauxhall she was a junior Home Office minister and then sports minister under Tony Blair, but later became an outspoken backbench rebel. She was pro fox hunting, pro-Brexit, pro tougher immigration controls, pro curbs on welfare spending and grammar schools.
She was against the Iraq war, Trident, tuition fees, ID cards and more LGBT+ rights. On Brexit, she was co-chair of Labour Leave, active in Grassroots Out, alongside Mr Farage and left-wing firebrand George Galloway, and accused the BBC of being "embittered remainers".
Asked if she's Mr Farage's "well known Labour figure.
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