Conservative spokesperson says scheduling meeting of US vice-president and party leader had been difficult
JD Vance has met Robert Jenrick during his holiday in the Cotswolds but is not expected to see the Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch.
Jenrick held an hour-long one-on-one meeting with the US vice-president on Tuesday evening, according to a source close to the shadow justice secretary.
A Conservative spokesperson said that Badenoch was also speaking to Vance this week but that scheduling time for them to meet in person had proved difficult.
Both Vance and Badenoch’s teams played down the idea of a snub, but Vance’s decision to hold a meeting with Jenrick will raise eyebrows.
