US EditionEx-Conservative Deputy Chair Among Tory Defections to Reform
Jonathan Gullis left the Conservative Party after 18 years, criticizing migration and Net Zero policies, believing Reform UK offers the bold reforms needed, local councillors said.
- On Monday, Jonathan Gullis, a former Conservative MP and onetime deputy chairman, announced he has left the Conservative Party and joined Reform UK, ending an 18-year association he did not take lightly.
- Gullis said the move was prompted by the Conservative Party losing touch, blaming failures on migration and a Net Zero policy that raised energy bills and threatened Stoke-on-Trent's ceramics sector jobs.
- Reform figures locally said Luke Shenton welcomed Gullis as a 'huge boost' and Gullis, mayor of Kidsgrove, said he will campaign across Stoke-on-Trent.
- The move comes after last month's defection of Daniel Jellyman and other departures earlier this year, with Reform saying Conservatives have betrayed Stoke-on-Trent voters six months before local and devolved elections.
- Previously, Jonathan Gullis had publicly mocked Reform last year and clashed with Richard Tice in a spat involving 'embarrassing personal information', while Piers Morgan criticised his past remarks.
12 Articles
12 Articles
Jonathan Gullis vows never to defect to Reform in resurfaced clip
Jonathan Gullis has become the latest shining beacon of British politics to jump ship from the Tories and defect to Reform. On Monday, Gullis – who lost his seat at last year’s general election and has since complained about not being able to find work – announced he was ditching the Conservatives for a lighter shade of blue. In a statement, the former minister and Tory chair lashed out at his now-former party, saying that they had ‘lost the tru…
Gullis insists ‘not a cat’s chance in hell’ of defecting to Reform in resurfaced clip
Jonathan Gullis insisted there was “not a cat’s chance in hell” of him joining Reform UK, in a newly resurfaced clip following his defection to Nigel Farage’s party. The ex-Tory party deputy chairman, who represented Stoke-on-Trent North until 2024, confirmed on Monday (1 December) that he would be leaving a Conservative party he believes has “lost touch with the people it was meant to serve”. Appearing on BBC Politics Live on 13 March, 2024, th…
James O’Brien mocks Reform over Jonathan Gullis’ defection
LBC presenter James O’Brien has mocked former Tory MP Jonathan Gullis’ defection to Reform, saying if he were running the party he would have told colleagues not to announce Gullis had joined. O’Brien also claimed that the departures of Gullis and Nadine Dorries show Kemi Badenoch “can’t be doing as bad a job as she appears to be doing”. On his LBC show today, O’Brien responded to the news that Gullis, the former Tory MP for Stoke-on-Trent has…
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 70% of the sources lean Left
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
