Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has removed her greatest internal rival, Robert Jenrick, from the Tory party as she alleges “irrefutable evidence” that he was planning to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Robert Jenrick, who has often been described as the de-facto leader of the Conservative Party given his high media profile and prominence in many consequential policy areas has been sensationally sacked from both the shadow cabinet where he held the immigration brief, and from the Conservative Party itself. Actual party leader Kemi Badenoch rolled out a suite of allegations against him on Thursday morning, claiming he was plotting to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
UPDATE 1330 — Nigel Farage says he’ll buy Jenrick a pint this afternoon
While Badenoch was
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