US EditionRobert Jenrick joins Reform UK after being sacked by Conservatives
Robert Jenrick was unveiled by Nigel Farage at a press conference after being sacked for secretly plotting to defect; he cited migration and national security concerns.
- On Thursday, Robert Jenrick joined Reform UK, unveiled by leader Nigel Farage at a Westminster press conference.
- Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch suspended Robert Jenrick and removed the whip after citing 'irrefutable evidence' he was plotting to defect, with party sources noting documents including a speech and media plan left 'lying around'.
- Robert Jenrick said failures on migration and justice drove his move, criticizing rising migration, court backlogs, 'overflowing' prisons and a small army, adding both Labour Party and Conservative Party broke Britain.
- Nigel Farage welcomed Jenrick and thanked Kemi Badenoch, saying he would 'buy Kemi lunch next week' and highlighting Jenrick's 60% approval rating as a boost to realign the centre-right.
- A string of Tory defections has bolstered Reform UK, with Lord Offord, Nadhim Zahawi, Dame Andrea Jenkyns, Jonathan Gullis and Nadine Dorries joining, while Kevin Hollinrake called Jenrick's move 'treacherous'.
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Nigel Farage’s biggest Tory defection is a gamble for Reform
LONDON — Nigel Farage was beaming about his newest recruit Thursday. But the defection from the Tories of frontbench star Robert Jenrick hints at sizable problems for Farage’s insurgent right-wing party too. By securing his highest-profile defection from the Conservatives yet, Reform UK gains one of its rival party’s best communicators — a pugnacious and energetic hardliner, capable of shaping the narrative in Westminster and beyond. But Jenrick…
With MP Robert Jenrick, a former Tory minister and MP has changed to Reform UK. Jenrick accused his old party of being responsible for the decline of Britain when he announced his party change.
Robert Jenrick joins Reform after being sacked by Conservatives
Kemi Badenoch rushed out her announcement that she had sacked Robert Jenrick after seeing leaked notes of his defection plans. The news landed just as Nigel Farage was hosting a press conference where he had wanted to talk about his party’s new Scottish leader. Mr Farage admitted he had been in “discussions” with Robert Jenrick, but denied the deal had been done. Nigel Farage this afternoon held another press conference, where he welcomed his hi…
Robert Jenrick attacks Tories as ‘failed’ party as he becomes latest to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform
Robert Jenrick has accused the Tories of lacking the “stomach for the radical change this country needs” as he defected to Reform UK after being sacked from Kemi Badenoch’s front bench.
Senior UK Conservative Jenrick Jumps to Farage’s Party
Robert Jenrick, a senior British opposition politician and former cabinet minister, has defected to Reform UK, escalating turmoil on the Right of UK politics and deepening the crisis facing the Conservative Party. Jenrick, who served as a government minister under former prime minister Boris Johnson and later became the Conservatives’ shadow justice secretary, appeared on stage with Reform leader Nigel Farage on Thursday evening. Farage hailed t…
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