Lord Frost has revealed he was once a Labour member before switching to the Tories.
The Tory peer and former Brexit minister said he joined the party while at Oxford University.
But he said he quit as he became more eurosceptic and as he “began to realise” Labour is “not the party of ordinary voters”.
Lord Frost told GB News: “I thought at the time the Labour Party was the party that stood up for ordinary voters, people who wanted their lives to be better, wanted things to change, wanted to kind of get on in life and you know make themselves, their families, better off.
“I thought the Labour Party was a party that stood up for people like that. I have changed my mind about that.”
He added: “I think it was a gradual realisation to be honest, partly being in the civil service, and becoming quite Eurosceptic about what I saw in Brussels in the 90s. That was a big part of it.
“But I think more importantly, I began to realise, and I believe very strongly now, that the Labour Party is not the party of ordinary voters, it’s the party of the public sector, the people who like to decide how the country is run and like telling other people what to do. And those were the classes that were defeated in the 2016 referendum.
“That was a vote for change and doing things differently. And I think that’s what the Conservative Party now stands for.”
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