“My message to you is plain, clean and simple – never trust a Tory. They will always let you down, they will always betray you.” So said Reform leader Nigel Farage in a social media video published on October 29.
Farage’s warning about Tories came less than four weeks after welcoming Tory defector and former Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton into his party. Now she has been joined by three more former Tory MPs – Lia Nici, Chris Green and Jonathan Gullis, the last of whom joins ex-Tory MPs Lee Anderson (defected March 2024), Andrea Jenkyns (defected November 2024) and Nadine Dorries (defected September 2025) in Reform’s intellectual wing.
The arrival of Gullis, Conservative MP for Stoke-on-Trent North from 2019-2024 is particularly hilarious, given that after Anderson’s defection he insisted there was “not a cat’s chance in hell” of him following suit, adding that it takes “courage and conviction to sometimes stay within something like a political party”.
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A month later, Gullis was threatened on social media by Farage’s now-deputy Richard Tice after mocking Reform’s “rotten eggs”. Tice told him: With a special Easter message to Tory MP Jonathan Gullis: Given the multiple bits of embarrassing personal information we have on you, I suggest you pipe down on your attacks against me.”
Despite all that, Gullis has now decided he’s better off with Reform, where he joins other former Tory MPs like Danny Kruger, Maria Caulfield, Jake Berry, Adam Holloway, Anne Marie Morris, Ross Thomson, Marco Longhi, Lucy Allan, David Jones and Aidan Burley.
No wonder Farage says Tories will always let you down, always betray you – they all have done so to Kemi Badenoch, defecting since she became leader. And one day his defectors may even do so to Farage himself.
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