Скачать или смотреть Kemi Badenoch sacks Robert Jenrick from Tory shadow cabinet over 'secret' Reform defection plot

Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from her shadow cabinet and expelled him from the Conservative Party after learning he was “plotting” to join Reform UK.

In a video posted to X, the Tory leader said she was presented with "clear, irrefutable evidence" that the shadow justice secretary was "plotting in secret to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible" to her party.

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