Maria Caulfield, former Tory health minister, defects to Reform — UK politics live

Caulfield says the future is Reform' as second prominent Tory in a week leaves for Nigel Farage's party

Vikram Dodd is the Guardian's crime correspondent.

Police expect to arrest 50 more people following Saturday's large far-right-led march through London, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police said this morning.

If you are Conservative right-minded, then the future is Reform. The country is going to change a lot. The same people who thought that Brexit would not happen think that Reform will not happen. They are in for a shock.