Robert Jenrick has become the latest big-name Tory to defect to Reform UK.

On another day of high drama at Westminster, the former cabinet minister jumped ship after being sacked as shadow justice secretary by Kemi Badenoch after she got wind of his double-dealing.

His defection was announced at a press conference by Reform leader Nigel Farage, who thanked Badenoch for forcing Jenrick’s hand.

“You’ve perhaps today, really done anything more than anybody in history to help realign the centre-right of British politics, which is much needed against a dreadful Labour government and increasingly worrying extreme left-wing voice in this country,” he said.

“So I can’t offer you........

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