Reform UK hires ex-Tory MP who was suspended for using racist language

Anne Marie Morris, twice suspended while an MP between 2010 and 2024, will lead Reform’s social care policy

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Reform UK has hired a former Conservative MP who was suspended for using the N-word.

Anne Marie Morris, who had the whip withdrawn by Theresa May in 2017 for using the term in a debate about Brexit, will lead Reform’s social care policy. She is one of several ex-Tories who have defected to Nigel Farage’s party.