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You should go, Badenoch tells Tory MPs pondering defection

Kemi Badenoch expelled Robert Jenrick after uncovering secret plans to defect, appointing Nick Timothy as shadow justice secretary to stabilize the Conservative Party.

  • Kemi Badenoch sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet for secretly plotting to defect to Reform UK in a damaging way.
  • Jenrick confirmed he had resolved to leave the Conservatives and will join Reform UK's 'frontline team' alongside other defectors.
  • Badenoch told Nigel Farage that Jenrick, who urged the public to 'join the movement', is 'his problem' now.
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Kemi Badenoch bids to steady Tories after Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform

The Newark MP said most of his former Tory colleagues ‘don’t have the stomach for the radical change this country needs’.

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The Telegraph broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Thursday, January 15, 2026.
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