{"id":37732,"date":"2023-05-10T17:12:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/05\/10\/former-conservative-mp-andrew-bridgen-joins-reclaim-party\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T17:12:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:12:03","slug":"former-conservative-mp-andrew-bridgen-joins-reclaim-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=37732","title":{"rendered":"Former Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen joins Reclaim Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Andrew Bridgen has claimed he was a &#8220;prisoner&#8221; in the Conservative Party as he announced he would be Reclaim\u2019s first MP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Elected as a Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire, he was suspended and then expelled from the party over his comments about Covid vaccines and the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ahead of crossing the floor of the Commons, he announced his reasoning for joining the party led by Laurence Fox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65543018\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Ex-Tory Andrew Bridgen joins Laurence Fox&#8217;s Reclaim party<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65545735?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Andrew Bridgen has claimed he was a &#8220;prisoner&#8221; in the Conservative Party as he announced he would be Reclaim\u2019s first MP. Elected as a Conservative MP for North West &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}