Barbs and a betrayal as Jenrick joins Reform after Badenoch gives him boot
by Jessica Elgot, Rowena Mason and Libby Brooks from World news | The Guardian on (#72VNP)
Former shadow justice secretary shares stage with Nigel Farage in wake of being summarily sacked by Tory leader
Robert Jenrick made a dramatic defection to Nigel Farage's Reform UK on Thursday, declaring the Conservatives rotten" and a failed" party, after being sacked by Kemi Badenoch for plotting against her.
In a high-stakes day for the future of the British right, Jenrick became the most senior Tory to switch allegiance to Reform, launching into a fiery and personal denunciation of his former colleagues in the shadow cabinet.
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