Suella Braverman has defended Nigel Farage’s PMQs (Prime Minister’s Questions) protest as she argued he “should be called more” to grill Sir Keir Starmer.

Speaking to GB News, the former Home Secretary said the Reform UK leader “speaks for the large majority of people” in Britain.

In a defiant move against Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Farage watched this week’s grilling from the public gallery, vowing to “not return until he is called”.

Speaking to GB News after Wednesday’s session, the Reform leader said: “There is no point in being there. I am on strike. I will continue until I get a question.”

Leaping to the defence of Mr Farage, Mrs Braverman told GB News: “I think he should be called more often. I think Reform speaks for a large majority of the public at the moment.

“If you read and believe the polls and they’re winning lots of elections, much like GB News, they are the voice of the people in many, many ways.

“And I do think it’s not a fair reflection of the state of British politics to exclude key politicians.”

Asked by host Christopher Hope if she is considering a defection to Reform, the ex-Home Secretary insisted she is “still a Tory”.

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Mrs Braverman made clear: “I’m still a Tory, and there are no plans for me to move to Reform UK.”

Quizzed on the latest grooming gangs chaos surrounding the Labour Government, the top Tory called for Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips to “resign”.

She explained: “This issue, we cannot afford to waste more time, and we cannot have more ministers gaslighting the British people and the victims and the survivors.

“We need an inquiry now, we need to get to the bottom of the truth, and we need justice for the victims. Jess Phillips, having lost the confidence of survivors who have now resigned from the panel in the last few days, is a damning reflection of her oversight of this process.”

Highlighting the further injustice for the survivors and victims of grooming gangs, Mrs Braverman stated: “They have now lost the candidates to chair the inquiry, they’re saying it’s going to be taken in-house, they’re basically moving the deck chairs around while the Titanic is sinking.

“They just want justice. My Government didn’t provide justice sufficiently for them, but they do need it now. One of the survivors has said that Jess Phillips was lying, and it looks like a cover up of the cover up.”

She concluded: “They don’t want to talk about the ethnicity. They don’t want to talk about the ethnicity of the perpetrators, which is an absolutely integral feature of the whole scandal.

“If that’s not a cover up, I don’t know what it is.”