'A Shameless Chancer': Jenrick Slammed After Quitting Tories For Reform |
Robert Jenrick has been branded “a shameless chancer” after defecting from the Tories to Reform UK.
The former Tory leadership contender jumped ship just hours after Kemi Badenoch sacked him from her frontbench after seeing “clear, irrefutable evidence” of his betrayal.
That turned out to be a copy of the speech he planned to make announcing his defection, which was leaked to the Conservative leader by someone in Jenrick’s office.
In it, he said: “The Tories and Labour have forfeited the right to govern the United Kingdom. And the mantle now passes to Reform.”
It also emerged that Jenrick first........