Announcement comes after Kemi Badenoch sacked shadow justice secretary over evidence of defection plot
Robert Jenrick has defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK after being sacked from the Conservative shadow cabinet, calling his former party “rotten” and urging more MPs to jump ship.
The former justice secretary, who stood for the Tory leadership against Kemi Badenoch, said the Conservative party in Westminster “isn’t sorry, it doesn’t get it, it hasn’t changed, it won’t change, it can’t change” before launching into a broadside against his former colleagues.
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