3 h. ago Kemi Badenoch says she is '100% confident' there won't be more major defections to Reform as she trades blows with Robert Jenrick over his 'lies'

Kemi Badenoch dismissed the prospect of any more of her shadow cabinet switching sides as she mocked Nigel Farage for 'doing my Spring cleaning'.

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3 h. ago Tory ‘arsonists’ still in charge of party, says Jenrick as he hits back at Badenoch

Former Conservative minister who has joined Reform responds to allegations of lying from his former leaderUK politics live – latest updatesThe “arsonists” who tanked the reputation of the Conservatives are still in charge of the party, Robert Jenrick has said as he and the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, trade blows a day after his dramatic defection to Reform UK.Giving his first interview since his announcement on Thursday, the former shadow justice secretary said the Conservatives had not changed since the election, while defending himself against allegations of lying from his former party leader. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Labour ‘out of step’ on oil and gas, says Badenoch as poll shows support

The Tory leader was speaking to journalists during a visit to Aberdeen.

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4 h. ago Farage has done my spring cleaning, says Badenoch after Jenrick defection

The Conservative leader said Reform are ‘taking people who are repeatedly sacked from government’.

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4 h. ago Kemi Badenoch hails Russell Findlay as ‘best person’ to be first minister

The Conservative leader was speaking during a visit to Aberdeen on Friday.

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6 h. ago Nigel Farage is warned Reform risks becoming the 'Slytherin House' of British politics and a 'succession battle is looming' for the leadership after Tory defections

Nigel Farage welcomed Robert Jenrick into the fold last night, hours after he had been summarily sacked by Kemi Badenoch for plotting a betrayal.

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8 h. ago Robert Jenrick’s successor says public ‘sick of backstabbing’ after defection

Nick Timothy also said the Conservative Party is ‘more united under Kemi’s leadership than I’ve known it for many years’.

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8 h. ago Badenoch and Starmer are the winners from Robert Jenrick’s dismal Tory betrayal

Editorial: The extraordinary events of the shadow justice secretary’s firing and rehiring are a boost to the Tory and Labour leaders – but will only divide the right

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9 h. ago Robert Jenrick latest: New Reform MP urges others to join Farage’s party in scathing attack on Tories

Former Conservative leadership rival to Kemi Badenoch says his old party and Labour ‘broke Britain’

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11 h. ago Say what you will about Trump, but unlike Starmer he knows his own power – and how to use it | Aditya Chakrabortty

The right is unafraid to show its might on the world stage – meanwhile the prime minister is tinkering with potholes. That just about sums up the centre-leftLast weekend, as the world wondered whether Donald Trump would swipe Greenland, Keir Starmer made his own big geographic intervention: he published a map of which councils were fixing potholes.Yes, potholes. Yes, a map. Barely 18 months into office, with crucial elections just ahead and his party lagging behind the ragtag troops of Nigel Farage and even Kemi Badenoch, this was how Team Starmer kicked off 2026. To be fair, as the young people say, the map is colour-coded.Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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17 h. ago RECAP: Robert Jenrick blasts Labour AND Tories over mass migration as he is unveiled as latest Reform MP

RECAP: Robert Jenrick has blasted both Labour and the Tories over mass migration as he is unveiled as Reform's newest MP. Catch all the latest updates here.

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17 h. ago 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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18 h. ago I respect Kemi, but there is no chance she can win the election... Farage is the way forward, says Robert Jenrick

Robert Jenrick burned all bridges with the Conservatives on Thursday as he rounded on Kemi Badenoch and other senior figures just 24 hours after sitting around the Shadow Cabinet table.

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20 h. ago Badenoch and Starmer are the winners in Robert Jenrick’s dismal Tory betrayal

Editorial: The extraordinary events of the shadow justice secretary’s firing and rehiring are a boost to the Tory and Labour leaders – but will only divide the right

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20 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: With a glint in her eye, Kemi pounced on the Great Xerox Bungle and assassinated her ex

Kemi Badenoch recently acquired a chunky new leather handbag. At 11.06am we learned that it contained a Kalashnikov.

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21 h. ago When Kemi met Sandie...Tory leader says if the SNP don't know what a woman is they shouldn't be running Scotland

Health bosses must end the 'bureaucratic oppression' of Sandie Peggie, Kemi Badenoch has said following talks with the 'remarkable' nurse who fought for single-sex spaces.

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21 h. ago Barbs and a betrayal as Jenrick joins Reform after Badenoch gives him boot

Former shadow justice secretary shares stage with Nigel Farage in wake of being summarily sacked by Tory leader UK politics live – latest updatesRobert Jenrick made a dramatic defection to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK on Thursday, declaring the Conservatives “rotten” and a “failed” party, after being sacked by Kemi Badenoch for plotting against her.In a high-stakes day for the future of the British right, Jenrick became the most senior Tory to switch allegiance to Reform, launching into a fiery and personal denunciation of his former colleagues in the shadow cabinet. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Robert Jenrick attacks Tories as he joins Reform after sacking over 'secret' defection plot

Nigel Farage unveils former Tory leadership hopeful as new member of Reform in highest profile defection yet to his party

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21 h. ago Robert Jenrick latest: New Reform MP launches scathing attack on Tories as he joins Farage’s party after sacking

Former Conservative leadership rival to Kemi Badenoch says his old party and Labour ‘broke Britain’

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21 h. ago Robert Jenrick sacked after Reform UK defection speech 'left at printer'

Robert Jenrick was sacked as shadow justice secretary by Kemi Badenoch after a speech announcing his defection to Reform UK was reportedly found on an office printer

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