Disloyalty and defection: the Tory-Reform psychodrama

Disloyalty and defection: the Tory-Reform psychodrama

First he was pushed and then he jumped: high drama at Westminster after Kemi Badenoch sacked her rival for the Tory leadership Robert Jenrick - his crime was plotting a defection to Reform UK. Hours later, Jenrick appeared at Nigel Farage's side, branding his former party "rotten".


Did Badenoch’s decisive action help the Tory recovery plan? Which party is left weaker and which stronger in the fight for the right - could this, the most significant defection so far, further fuel Farage’s claim that the Conservative Party’s days are numbered?


Deputy opinion editor Miranda Green hosts a discussion about the ‘psychodrama’ that has rocked Westminster this week with the FT’s deputy political editor Jim Pickard, columnist and writer of the ‘Inside Politics’ newsletter Stephen Bush, and FT’s chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley.


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Betrayal, plots and a mole who derailed Jenrick’s defection to Reform


Robert Jenrick joins Reform UK after being sacked from Tory shadow cabinet


Jenrick’s sacking is both threat and opportunity for Badenoch


Lunch with the FT Robert Jenrick: ‘I’m unashamedly provincial in my attitudes’


Latest U-turn raises renewed questions over Keir Starmer’s judgment


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