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Conservative shadow minister Andrew Rosindell has defected to Reform UK. The MP for Romford is now the second MP to defect to Nigel Farage's party this week, after Robert Jenrick's defection earlier this week. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Another Shadow Cabinet member has joined us. I've known Andrew for over 25 years. We've always gone on very, very well.
00:07The sort of final straw for you was the fact the Conservative Party could have killed J.Bus Bill in the Lords last week and just refused to do so.
00:15So I only ever got involved in politics because I love my country and it was Margaret Thatcher that inspired me to join the Conservative Party at the age of 14.
00:24So for me, giving away his majesty's territories to a foreign country, which is denying the Chagossian people their right of self-determination, at the same time undermining our British security and paying billions of pounds for doing so, when sadly it was a Conservative government that started this whole policy in the first place, I just feel ashamed.
00:49And it's a total failure of the British state to protect British interests.
00:55The Conservative Party and the Labour Party have played a part in this and I can't put my name to it. Ever.

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