Former Conservative MP and party chairman Sir Jake Berry has announced he is defecting to Reform UK.

Writing in the Sun, Sir Jake said: “Old Westminster politics has failed. But there’s a better way.”

He said he was backing Reform UK “because I’ve always believed that change comes with challenging the old order. In shaking up the system when it isn’t working”.

Earlier this week David Jones, the former Conservative Welsh secretary, also joined Nigel Farage’s party.