Kemi Badenoch has come out swinging this morning, branding Jenrick a “liar” who said just yesterday morning he would “never defect.” She added that “people he’d fallen out with” brought his resignation speech to her team…
She told GB News:
“It’s quite clear that Robert Jenrick tells a lot of lies and you can’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth. This is a man who was asked yesterday morning, are you going to defect? And he said never to the chief whip when he found evidence of the speeches he was going to give. And why has all this happened? Because he’s fallen out with people and those people have brought stuff to us…This man said, ‘I want to be leader of the Conservative Party’…He is leaving because he doesn’t think that he can be leader…I’m just glad that Nigel Farage is doing my spring cleaning for me, he’s taking away my problems. The Conservative Party is even more united and stronger because we’ve lost someone who was not a team player.”
Ouch…
Reacting to the news of Jenrick’s sacking at a press conference in Fife, Nigel Farage said:
“I’ll give him a ring this afternoon. Might even buy him a pint.”