Jenrick has said he left the Tories because “the arsonists are still in control”. Fighting fire with fire…
He told the BBC:
“I perhaps naively believed that the Conservative Party could be honest with itself about what it had got wrong, repent for those mistakes, change fundamentally and more than anybody else, I would argue in the Conservative Party, I tried to do that…I came to the conclusion over the course of the last year or so that that was not going to happen. That the party hadn’t changed. That the people who had made those mistakes were still sat around the shadow cabinet table. The arsonists were still in control of the party.”
He said that Reform would use the next coming “months and years” to put forward “the most comprehensible plan” to fix the country. He also added that although Farage has not yet promised him a job, he came to the final conclusion to defect over the Christmas period. Jenrick claims his defection is “uniting the right”…
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.”