Conservative leader thanks Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, for ‘doing my spring cleaning for me’
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Robert Jenrick “tells a lot of lies” and cannot be trusted, Kemi Badenoch has said, as she spoke out publicly about her former frontbench colleague for the first time since his dramatic defection to Reform.
The Conservative leader attacked Jenrick in scathing terms on Friday, 24 hours after sacking him from the shadow cabinet when she had learned of his plans to defect.
She said her one-time party leadership rival had lied to a senior colleague about his planned defection shortly before announcing it at a press conference in Westminster. Badenoch thanked the Reform leader, Nigel Farage, for “doing my spring cleaning for me”.
