US EditionRobert Jenrick joins Reform UK after being sacked by Conservatives
Robert Jenrick cited failures by major parties on migration and crime while joining Reform UK, which now holds six parliamentary seats, after his Tory sacking for plotting defection.
- On Tuesday morning, Kemi Badenoch announced she had sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet after clear, irrefutable evidence showed he was plotting to defect in a damaging way.
- A staff leak and `left lying around` documents prompted Kemi Badenoch to act, including a resignation speech and leaked recordings linked to Robert Jenrick.
- Leaked audio suggests Robert Jenrick criticised Nigel Farage, claiming he `can’t even run a five-a-side team` and Reform UK is `not a serious party`, while public exchanges show they traded insults in recent years.
- Robert Jenrick defected hours after his dismissal, losing the whip and Conservative membership; Nick Timothy took over, MPs showed resolve, and Badenoch said she is 100% confident no further defections will occur.
- Longstanding tensions between Jenrick and Farage show that Farage had called Jenrick a `fraud` despite their reported dinner last month, while Jenrick's leadership ambitions and a row last week contributed to his fall.
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While Nigel Farage may be more than happy to accept another failed senior Tory who helped wreck the country among his party’s ranks, not everyone in Reform is happy about their latest recruit Robert Jenrick. Jenrick became the latest high-profile Tory to defect to Reform, which claims to be an anti-establishment party but which has now welcomed more than 20 former Tory MPs into its ranks. In a day of turmoil for the Conservatives yesterday, part…
All the Jenrick-Farage spats - from 'generic' to 'not a serious politician'
Robert Jenrick’s move to Reform UK has sent shockwaves through Westminster, not least because of years of bad blood between the former Tory minister and his new boss, Nigel Farage. In a dramatic twist on Thursday morning, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch sacked her shadow justice secretary for allegedly plotting to defect to Reform. Within hours, Jenrick was unveiled at a press conference by Farage, where he said the Conservatives “broke” Britain and “…
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch fired British shadow cabinet minister Robert Jenrick on Thursday, claiming the latter was planning to join the right-wing populist party led by Nigel Farage. It was later revealed that Jenrick had indeed joined Farage's party, making him the most senior Conservative to join the right-wing populists.
Robert Jenrick sacked by Tories and embraced by Reform – what his Newark constituency tells us about the future
Within just a few hours of being publicly sacked from the shadow cabinet by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick held a press conference to announce he was joining Reform. Badenoch cited “clear, irrefutable evidence” the Jenrick had been plotting to defect to Reform in a maximally damaging way. In his press conference, Jenrick attacked his former party, painted a bleak view of the state of Britain and declared that Nigel Farage was …
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