Robert Jenrick has just released the receipts after Badenoch called him “a liar” for claiming the now-Tory Chief Whip Rebecca Harris said there was “a special place in hell” for him. The texts are damning:
Kemi’s clapback looking shaky now…
UPDATE: A Reform source said:
“The Tories lied to you in office and Kemi and her team have been caught red handed lying to the public again. Senior MPs at the heart of the Tory Party privately think it’s evil to spend money on our armed forces over foreign aid. They simply cannot be trusted to serve the British people.”
UPDATE II: A Conservative Party source said:
“Robert Jenrick is lying again and misrepresenting an exchange he had over two years ago. Those messages have absolutely nothing to do with cutting foreign aid. Instead they show a government whip trying to reason with someone who was working with the ‘Grid of Shit’ plotters, and whose scheming helped contribute to a Labour landslide and the worst result for the Conservative Party in its history. With his love of backstabbing and psychodrama, Jenrick will fit right in with Reform.”
Shadow national security minister Alicia Kearns told Times Radio she would have put a precondition on a China trip if she were PM:
“I would have put a precondition that I was not going to go if I was prime minister, unless Jimmy Lai was coming home with me. I would also put a precondition in the six months leading up to the visit that I wanted a reduction in hostile acts against our country. But that’s not what we saw. And actually, in contrast, what we saw was clearly the Chinese Communist Party did put a precondition, which was that the new embassy in London had to be signed off. So why is it okay for China to set preconditions and to make very clear red lines about what they require for a visit, but we go without having put any ourselves?”
