[arista]

[Jonathan Gullis, a former Conservative Party
deputy chairman, has announced he has quit
the party and joined Reform UK.

The former MP for Stoke-on-Trent North
and education minister had
been a party member for 18 years,
but said he believed the party had
"lost touch with the people it was meant to serve".

It comes one month after councillor
Daniel Jellyman, the Conservative group leader
on Stoke-on-Trent City Council, also defected
to Reform UK and became the party's leader
on the local authority.]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr12e7259xo