The Conservative leader has faced months of questions over his 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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The Conservative leader has faced months of questions over his 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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Reform leader Nigel Farage said ‘of course’ he has had conversations with the now former senior Tory Jenrick
The Conservative leader said Reform are ‘taking people who are repeatedly sacked from government’.
It comes just days after Robert Jenrick quit the Tories to join Nigel Farage’s ranks, launching a blistering attack on his former…
The Conservative leader said Nigel Farage’s party was ‘taking away’ her problems by welcoming Robert Jenrick
Jenrick was sacked by the Conservative leader this week hours before he defected to Nigel Farage’s party
The Reform UK leader had described the Tory MP as a ‘fraud’ as recently as last summer
Jenrick ‘tells a lot of lies’, says Badenoch after shadow justice secretary’s defection
