Jake Berry reveals he is 'not in touch' with Kemi Badenoch after 'tough decision' to defect to Reform

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Sir Jake Berry has declared that Britain is "broken" and Reform UK are the only party with the "vision to rebuild Britain again".The ex-Conservative Party Chairman announced his move on social media last night, declaring his former party had "lost its way".FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00That's right, Andrew and Bev. In the past three days, Kevin Badenock has lost two former

00:04cabinet ministers to reform UK and the latest affection is Sir Jake Berry, the former party

00:09chairman. Jake Berry, why are you joining Reform UK? Chris, I've decided that Britain is broken.

00:15I don't think any... Look, this won't be a surprise, by the way, to GB News viewers. They can see me

00:19on your channel quite often setting out the concerns I have with immigration, taking away

00:24support from children with the abolition of the EHCP, all of these things. And I don't believe,

00:28even having been at the centre of government for 14 years as a Conservative MP, that either

00:34of the old parties have a plan to build Britain back into the country that we can be proud

00:39of again. Nigel Farage has. He's straight-talking. He's head of a party that listens to people,

00:45listens to their concerns. He's the right man for the job. And I'm going to spend however

00:48long it is between now and the next election and beyond campaigning to ensure that he has

00:52made our prime minister and that reform form the next government here in the UK.

00:56Have you told Kevin Badenock in person? And what did she say to you?

00:58No, I'm not in touch with Kevin. I'd, in fact, left the Conservative Party a while ago.

01:04You stopped being a member a while ago. I stopped being a member of the Conservative Party a while

01:08ago. I've been on quite a long journey. I found myself getting sort of more and more concerned

01:13about the state of Britain. And I know that Nigel Farage and the Reform Party are the party

01:18who have, you know, the vision, the values to ensure that, you know, Britain can be rebuilt

01:23again. You've been on your own journey, haven't you? Boris Johnson, then Tom Tugganhat and then

01:29Nigel Farage. What do voters make of that journey? Well, I think they'd say that politics is probably

01:33a bug that it's quite hard to kick. I lost my seat just over a year ago. I thought that was probably

01:39the end of my time in politics. But, you know, if you look at the issues facing Britain,

01:44our streets here are lawless. Lawless. You can barely walk down the street in major cities across

01:50the UK without someone trying to nick your phone out of your hand. You know, we have uncontrolled

01:55migration. No one can get a GP's appointment. I know, because I've been there, that neither the

02:01Conservative Party nor the Labour Party have what it takes to really transform Britain and build it

02:06back into a country that we can believe in. It looks a bit opportunistic, doesn't it? You've got the

02:10Reform UK ahead in the polls, 29 points, 27 points. Labour, 23 points. Tories, 20 points. You're basically

02:16going with a party that might win the next election. Well, I really hope the Reform Party does win the

02:21next election, because I think it's the only thing that can get Britain moving again. Look, we as a

02:27nation, in my view, are drinking in the last chance saloon. We've got one more chance to get this right.

02:32I don't think any of the traditional parties, you know, have, you know, have what it takes to do that.

02:37And that's why, call it opportunistic or not. I mean, look, by the way, it's not a very easy thing

02:42to do, to leave a political party that you've been supporting. 15 years. Well, I've been supporting

02:46it for over 30 years, Chris. And, you know, it was a huge decision. It's not one I've taken lightly.

02:51But we've got a choice here in this country. We can either be like the 16,500 people who give up

02:57on Britain and apparently have left in the last 12 months. We can either wring our hands and say,

03:02you know, decline is our destiny. Or we can stand and fight, fight to make things better,

03:06fight for a better Britain. And that, by joining reform, by supporting Nigel Farage to be our next

03:11Prime Minister, that's the choice I've made. Have you been promised any role by Nigel Farage

03:15to come across? No, it's early days. I just want to do all I can to support him and the party.

03:21And, you know, to ensure that we can go on that journey. We're speaking a week when David Jones,

03:26a former Welsh secretary under David Cameron, he announced he was joining, he had joined Reform UK

03:31on Monday. You announced your plan to Wednesday. Is there a whole slew of you coming across from

03:37the Tory party? I know you quit the party a while ago. Look, I think what makes Reform different is

03:41its ability to appeal to people. Those people who have strong political views may have been in

03:46political parties previously. People have no political views. Look at Zia Yusuf, a leading

03:51British entrepreneur who's come to Reform, bringing his expertise in that sector. People from the

03:56business community, people from the Labour Party, people from across the political spectrum saying

04:01now is the time to do something different. What binds us all together isn't what party we may have

04:05been a member of at some point in the past, is our belief in the future, our belief that Britain has

04:10one more chance to get it right, that, you know, decline isn't the same as destiny. We can ensure

04:16that, you know, Britain can become a country we can believe in again. Do you worry, though, that some of

04:21the policies are a bit unrealistic, lifting the rate at which you pay income back to £20,000 a year,

04:27that will cost tens of billions of pounds. For some critics, they say this party is Liz Truss on

04:32steroids. It's going to prompt a run on the pound, risk the economy, take a big risk with our

04:37country's future. Chris, the political sort of stitch-up we've had in the country for the last 20

04:42years, I may have been part of it, but I did rail against, for example, Rishi Sunak putting up

04:47national insurance, I tried to toughen up the Rwanda bill, I did try and change things from the

04:51inside. You know, it has left Britain in a position where we have a taxation system that is driving

04:58away wealth creators and our brightest and brightest in our country, and a benefits system that is

05:04attracting the global poor to come here to live their lives on benefits with no checks and balances

05:09whatsoever. If you wanted to design a system to destroy our country, to destroy our society, to

05:16rail against that British sense of fair play and everyone gets a fair chance, you would struggle

05:21to put us in the position we are in today. That does not have to be the case. There's an opportunity

05:27for real change, and things like reducing taxes, getting control of our borders, doing all the things

05:34that people are crying out for in this country, that opportunity exists within reform.

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