The new shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy said he was ‘sorry’ for how the Conservatives ‘handled certain things in those last few years’ in power
Hello and welcome to the UK politics live blog with me, Tom Ambrose.
This morning we start with follow-up and reaction to Robert Jenrick’s dramatic sacking from the Tories and subsequent – if not depressingly unsurprising – defection to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
The shadow justice secretary was Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s leadership rival and had been the bookies favourite to replace her after she failed to make any sort of impact on the polls.
Jenrick was sacked from the shadow cabinet and suspended from the Conservative party after Badenoch said she was presented with “irrefutable evidence” that he was planning to defect.
