defector

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Meanwhile, another recent Tory defector, Suella Braverman, has been handed the education and skills brief, with deputy leader Richard Tice given a new role combining business, trade and energy policy.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Former Labour MP and Brexit campaigner Baroness Kate Hoey, who has sat as a non-affiliated peer since 2020, is among those rumoured to be a possible defector.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

"They pleaded with the interviewer to promise she would return to bring them to the South," said Jang, himself a North Korean defector.

From Barron's • Nov. 2, 2025

Dick’s characters appear and disappear amid a nearly incomprehensible plot about a Nazi defector who tries to warn the Japanese of an impending German attack.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

He tried to convince them that he wasn’t a defector, that he had merely been visiting family in China and was coming home to vote.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden