Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the Shadow Cabinet, removed the whip, and suspended his Conservative Party membership with immediate effect.
She claims she was presented with clear evidence that Jenrick was plotting a defection in a way designed to damage his Shadow Cabinet colleagues and the wider party.
In a statement the Tory leader said
I have sacked Robert Jenrick from the Shadow Cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership with immediate effect.
I was presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible to his Shadow Cabinet colleagues and the wider Conservative Party.
The British public are tired of political psychodrama and so am I. They saw too much of it in the last government, they’re seeing too much of it in THIS government.
I will not repeat those mistakes.
Sir Keir Starmer told reporters:
“Jenrick’s been making toxic comments to try and divide our country for months and months and months. It’s only now when he’s on the verge of defecting to Reform that Badenoch gets round to sacking him. So, that’s weakness.”
