‘Everyone is sick of this crap’: Jenrick defection deepens rightwing divide

Robert Jenrick’s sudden turn from the Conservatives to Reform UK has intensified the acrimony between the two partiesThe Conservatives plan to intensify their attacks on Reform’s economic policy as they gear up for a fight to the death between the two big parties of the right, a battle brought to new levels of acrimony by Robert Jenrick’s defection.While Jenrick, the former shadow justice secretary, insisted he was “uniting the right” in signing up to Reform, Kemi Badenoch portrayed her former colleague as dishonest and no loss to the Conservatives, saying: “Nigel Farage is doing my spring cleaning for me.” Continue reading...