Overview

• On July 3, Anne Marie Morris officially assumed leadership of Reform UK’s social care policy development team.
• Reform UK chair David Bull praised her wealth of parliamentary experience as vital for shaping the party’s policy platform.
• Morris spent 14 years as MP for Newton Abbot, serving on the Health and Social Care, Public Accounts, Work and Pensions and Treasury committees.
• Her critics point to two suspensions by the Conservatives—in 2017 for using the N-word in a Brexit debate and in 2022 for rebelling on a VAT cut proposal.
• Reform UK’s recruitment of former Tory figures like Morris reflects its strategy to present a credible alternative to the Labour government on social care.