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Jenrick says he hopes his defection to Reform UK will ‘unite the right’ after Badenoch says he ‘tells a lot of lies’ – as it happened

Reform UK’s newest MP said he made the decision to leave the Tories over Christmas

The Guardian - UK

Farage ‘couldn’t run a five-a-side team’, Jenrick says in leaked audio

Robert Jenrick can be heard criticising his new boss and dismissing Reform UK as ‘not a serious party’ in leaked audio

The Independent UK

'Traitors' politics: Minister's warning as Farage teases Labour defection to Reform after Jenrick joins from Tories

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said Reform UK was a ‘Right-wing project’ despite Nigel Farage’s party attracting a significant number of Labour voters

Evening Standard

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Friday briefing: How the Robert Jenrick saga exposes a hollowed out Tory party

In today’s newsletter: A sudden dismissal appears to have forced the hand of the most senior Tory to join the ranks of Reform so far

The Guardian - UK

£200 million to be spent on teacher Send training in bid to create a ‘truly inclusive education system’

There will also be a new expectation for all staff in every school, college and nursery to receive training on Send

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch bids to steady Tories after Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform

The Newark MP said most of his former Tory colleagues ‘don’t have the stomach for the radical change this country needs’.

Evening Standard

Badenoch and Starmer are the winners from Robert Jenrick’s dismal Tory betrayal

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The extraordinary events of the shadow justice secretary’s firing and rehiring are a boost to the Tory and Labour leaders – but will only divide the right

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Who has defected to Reform UK from the Conservatives and why?

Robert Jenrick has become the latest Tory MP to defect to Reform UK.

Evening Standard

Robert Jenrick’s political reinvention leads him to Reform

Mr Jenrick’s supporters say his spell at the Home Office ‘radicalised’ him in favour of a heavy reduction in immigration.

Evening Standard

‘Not so clever after all’: how Robert Jenrick was ejected before he defected

Kemi Badenoch praised for sacking Jenrick before he could announce he was ditching Tories for Reform

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Robert Jenrick’s defection: Britain’s right is in a crisis of its own making

Editorial: A former Tory cabinet minister leaps to Reform and turns the issue of Kemi Badenoch’s authority into a test of Tory survival

The Guardian - UK

Treachery and stupidity to the fore as Robert Jenrick defects to Reform

Even Nigel Farage looked taken aback by the news Honest Bob was about to join his flock, but he quickly saw the upside

The Guardian - UK

Robert Jenrick: from remainer to rightwinger with ruthless reputation

Defection of former Tory minister to Reform is another twist in ambitious politician’s career

The Guardian - UK

Tribunal nurse Sandie Peggie ‘has been through hell’, Kemi Badenoch says

The Tory leader met nurse Sandie Peggie in Edinburgh on Thursday – and afterwards called on the UK Government to issue updated gender guidance.

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

An expulsion, a smirking leader and now a defection: it’s episode one, series one of the Farage/Jenrick show

Farage was all smiles as the Tory rightwinger he once called a ‘fraud’ defected to Reform. Will it be big enough for the both of them? Keep watching, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Independent UK

Robert Jenrick defects to Reform after shock sacking and declares Farage is leader Britain needs

Nigel Farage thanks Tory leader for delivering Jenrick to Reform ‘on a plate’ after firing him – and boasts of a Labour defector to come

Evening Standard

Awkward moment Nigel Farage left waiting on stage after unveiling Robert Jenrick defection to Reform

Farage was unveiling Jenrick as Reform UK’s newest recruit and invited him to join him on stage when Jenrick initially failed to appear

Evening Standard

Robert Jenrick attacks Tories as ‘failed’ party as he defects to Reform

It comes after the Newark MP was sacked from the Tory frontbench by Kemi Badenoch.

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The Independent UK

Tories reveal the ‘proof’ Robert Jenrick was plotting defection to Reform

The former Tory shadow cabinet member has been announced as a Reform UK member at a press conference

The Guardian - UK

Barbs and a betrayal as Jenrick joins Reform after Badenoch gives him boot

Former shadow justice secretary shares stage with Nigel Farage in wake of being summarily sacked by Tory leader

The Independent UK

Why Kemi Badenoch finally gave Robert Jenrick the boot after months of Tory power struggle

The Conservative leader has faced months of questions over Jenrick’s ambitions, including whether he planned to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK – but Badenoch made a move first, as Whitehall editor Kate Devlin and political editor David Maddox report

Euronews

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch sacks rival after 'plot' to defect to Reform UK

In the past 12 months, the Conservatives have suffered a string of defections to hard-right Reform UK, including some former Cabinet ministers.

Evening Standard

Who is Robert Jenrick? Former Tory leadership hopeful sacked by Kemi Badenoch over Reform 'defection plot'

Robert Jenrick has served in Government under four prime ministers in four different roles

The Independent UK

Everything Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick said about each other before his dramatic defection

The Reform UK leader had described the Tory MP as a ‘fraud’ as recently as last summer

Evening Standard

Malcolm Offord named Reform’s Scottish leader ahead of ‘two-horse race’ election

Nigel Farage said May’s Holyrood poll is a contest only between his Reform UK party and the SNP.

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