Robert Jenrick has been sacked

Blimey Reform is just full of ex Tory has beens who brought the country down for 14 years. Nasty self serving toad.

Kemi Badenoch has gone up in my estimation for outing him. It annoys me when politicians make a defection all about themselves, and damage the party they are leaving deliberately.

Casdon

Kemi Badenoch has gone up in my estimation for outing him. It annoys me when politicians make a defection all about themselves, and damage the party they are leaving deliberately.

She's not gone up in mine if she can't keep key members of her cabinet.

I think he was a liability though, very right wing, and maverick, hard to handle. If I were a mainstream Tory I’d be glad to see the back of him because it improves chances of moving the party forward.

You can be sure that many MPs to the tight of the Tory party will join Reform and they have a fair chance of getting elected too.
Will there be a Tory/Reform electoral pact it there is it might be curtains for Starmer.

Never liked Jenrick. Kemi is right to get rid, I just wonder why he took so long to go over to Reform. He has Reform written all over him.
I am not a Tory but miss the days when a centre right Tory party was in power or opposition. Never thought I would miss the days of John Major.

Toad is Farage, as in Mr.Toad;
'I've only gone about the country humbugging everybody, that'all.'

Jenrick is one of the weasels.

Well done Kemi 👏👏👏

She has denied him his moment of defection glory.

GrannyGravy13

Well done Kemi 👏👏👏

She has denied him his moment of defection glory.

And made him look like a sneaky rat.
👍

Serves him right, treacherous weasel.

Good decision.

Agree with all the above. No fan of Bradenoch but a surge of joy escaped me on this miserable, rainy morning.

No great loss

I was at a dinner last year where he was the Guest speaker... I was not impressed, he came across as just having his own sleazy ambition, with No principles. It’s also very critical of NF and Reform, so surprised he's might be going, they are welcome to him.

I was asked did I want to meet him? No, not interested in that sleaze ball.

Kemi has done the correct thing, he's been on manoeuvres ever since Kemi beat him in the leadership contest!

Oh, good. Following Farage’s comments in April of last year that Jenrick is “not to be trusted” (just how duplicitous would you have to be for Farage to say you’re not to be trusted?!), desperately hoping they’ll refuse him. Of course, they won’t.
Imagining the expression on his wife’s face when she heard. They clearly never got over him losing the leadership contest (dare I say to a woman, a black one at that ……?).
Wouldn’t vote Conservative anyway, but well done Kemi Badenoch.

So first they were the Tory Party, then the Conservative Party, then the Conservative and Unionist Party and it looks as if the will become the Reform Party.

Whatever is said he was running away from the Badenoch Party - and who can blame him. I have a feeling he will feel very much at home with Retreat

Well at least Kemi acts rather than waffles!

eazybee

Toad is Farage, as in Mr.Toad;
'I've only gone about the country humbugging everybody, that'all.'

Jenrick is one of the weasels.

Hahaha eazybee, well said 😂

Well done Kemi. She sounded like a leader when she spoke about this decision, .

if you are an ambitious politician, what is the point of staying with a Party that is not going to win a GE in a lifetime?

Also, there is a look of defeat on the faces of Labour Politicians; most will be out of a job soon and I expect there are those on the right of the Party who will be weighing up their options.

Madgran77

Well at least Kemi acts rather than waffles!

She very often seems to have no idea what she was talking about. First instance, Kemi Badenoch has said that when she was 16 and living in Nigeria she received an offer, and a partial scholarship, from a prestigious American university – most often reported as Stanford – to study a course leading towards medicine, but that her family could not afford for her to take it up. The story has attracted scrutiny because Stanford does not offer undergraduate medical degrees or “pre-med” as a standalone course, and former admissions figures have said such offers would not have been made solely on test scores without a full application. Badenoch and her allies say she received informal or provisional offers from US universities based on her exam results, but she no longer has documentation.

Boz 👏

Sacking him won’t stop Jenrick defecting- just steals some thunder for Badenoch in the news headlines. Reform is becoming increasingly bloated with Conservative sloppy seconds.

Jenrick resigned his immigration minister role as he thought Sunak’s immigration policies didn’t go far enough. He also resigned from his Housing minister post following allegations of inappropriately approving a housing development owned by a Tory donor- who would have secured a £45 million payment if the development was approved. So Jenrick is good fit with Farage’s values and Reform ideology. But he’s ruthlessly ambitious and duplicitous; he’s built a solid social media profile, sees himself as a party leader- but lost to Badenoch.

Sparks may well fly between Jenrick, Farage and Yousef.

DaisyAnneReturns

Madgran77

Well at least Kemi acts rather than waffles!

She very often seems to have no idea what she was talking about. First instance, Kemi Badenoch has said that when she was 16 and living in Nigeria she received an offer, and a partial scholarship, from a prestigious American university – most often reported as Stanford – to study a course leading towards medicine, but that her family could not afford for her to take it up. The story has attracted scrutiny because Stanford does not offer undergraduate medical degrees or “pre-med” as a standalone course, and former admissions figures have said such offers would not have been made solely on test scores without a full application. Badenoch and her allies say she received informal or provisional offers from US universities based on her exam results, but she no longer has documentation.

Did she take a leaf out of Reeves manual, how to fib to get a plumb job, that she is no good at. Looks like it.