Reform UK has recruited former Conservative legislator Anne Marie Morris to lead the right-wing party’s development of social-care policy, the party announced on 2 July. Morris represented Newton Abbot in Parliament from 2010 until stepping down at the 2024 general election. During her tenure she twice had the Conservative whip withdrawn—first in 2017 after she used a racist phrase at a Brexit event, and again in 2022 for backing an opposition plan to scrap VAT on domestic energy bills. Explaining the move, Morris said Britain was in a “desperate position” and that Reform UK offers the “vision and leadership” she wants to support. Her appointment gives the party a former Health and Social Care Committee member as it seeks to broaden its policy platform ahead of the next election.