Jenrick Slammed By Ex-Tory Colleague For Reform Defection
Richard Holden accused ex-Conservative Robert Jenrick of “jumping into bed with the first people who would have him” in a scathing BBC Question Time takedown. Jenrick was kicked out of the Conservative shadow cabinet in January after leader Kemi Badenoch unearthed his plans to defect. Hours later, Reform leader Nigel Farage announced that his party had acquired yet another ex-Conservative. Jenrick was announced as Reform’s “shadow chancellor” – or Treasury spokesperson – this week. On BBC Question Time, the Newark MP tried to justify his decision by slating the Conservatives. Despite serving as the cabinet-attending immigration minister under Rishi Sunak, health minister under Liz Truss and housing secretary under Boris Johnson, Jenrick said: “I want to have a good government running this country for once, which we haven’t had for along time.” “Obviously, that is a government you were a part of,” host Fiona Bruce pointed out. “Yeah and I resigned from that government,” he insisted. “In the last parliament, I was the only person to resign on a matter of principle.” Jenrick resigned from …

