2 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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2 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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3 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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5 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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6 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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6 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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6 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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6 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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6 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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6 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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7 h. ago SARAH VINE: Jenrick has proved he's a morally vacant coward you can't trust with power... while Kemi's shown an unflappable core of steel

Kemi Badenoch's decision to fire Robert Jenrick from the Shadow Cabinet and remove the whip has, I'm afraid, been a long time coming.

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7 h. ago Sandie Peggie 'has been through hell' says Kemi Badenoch calling for guidance after trans row tribunal

Mrs Badenoch demanded Bridget Phillipson, the UK minister for women and equalities, publish revised guidance in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling.

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7 h. ago Jenrick joins Reform UK after being sacked from Tory shadow cabinet

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch had ousted former leadership rival for ‘plotting’ to defect

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7 h. ago Robert Jenrick joins Reform after sacking by Kemi Badenoch 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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8 h. ago Kemi Badenoch unfazed by Scottish Tories' dire Holyrood polling and dismisses Reform mass exodus

The UK Tory leader said she does not expect a flurry of further defections from her party to Reform

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8 h. ago Why Kemi Badenoch finally gave Robert Jenrick the boot after months of Tory power struggle

The Conservative leader has faced months of questions over Jenrick’s ambitions, including whether he planned to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK – but Badenoch made a move first, as Whitehall editor Kate Devlin and political editor David Maddox report

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8 h. ago Tribunal nurse Sandie Peggie ‘has been through hell’, Kemi Badenoch says

The Tory leader met nurse Sandie Peggie in Edinburgh on Thursday – and afterwards called on the UK Government to issue updated gender guidance.

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8 h. ago Opponents label Jenrick a ‘chancer’ and a ‘charlatan’ as he defects to Reform – politics live

Former shadow justice secretary turns fire on Tories and Labour as he joins Nigel Farage’s partyFull report: Badenoch sacks JenrickNigel Farage, speaking at his press conference in Scotland, has said that “of course” he has had conversations with Robert Jenrick, who was sacked by Kemi Badenoch this morning for planning to defect.UPDATE: Farage said:I have had conversations with a number of very senior conservatives over the course of the last week, the last month. A lot of them realise that for all the talk on 8 May the Conservative Party will cease to be a national party. They will be obliterated in Scotland, Wales, the red wall councils.As far as Mr Jenrick is concerned, of course I have talked to Robert Jenrick. Was I on the verge of signing him up? No. But we have had conversations.This morning I removed the Conservative whip from Robert Jenrick after dismissing him from the shadow cabinet.I was very sorry to be presented with clear, irrefutable evidence, not just that he was pr...

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8 h. ago Full list of Tories who have defected to Farage’s Reform after Jenrick officially joins

Robert Jenrick has been sacked by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch due to ‘irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect’ from the party

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9 h. ago Robert Jenrick latest: New Reform MP burns bridges with Tories after sacking prompts defection to Farage’s party

Reform leader Nigel Farage says Kemi Badenoch handed him ‘on a plate’ man who had done more than anything to realign centre-right politics

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