Andrea Jenkyns has a child care issue and told the Tory whips she would have to miss the vote tonight. The Tory whips through the “usual channels” have consequently paired her with a Labour MP who also will miss the Rwanda vote. This is sharp practice.
Andrea Jenkyns is a known opponent of the government’s proposals and would have voted against the government tonight. For the Tory whips to pair her with a Labour MP who would be expected to also vote against the government is an abuse of the pairing process as it takes two negative votes out of the equation rather than opposite and equivalent votes. Labour whips will be furious if they find out…
UPDATE: As a result of this story Andrea Jenkyns ended up voting against the bill.
Andrea Jenkyns has sent a letter of no confidence in Sunak to Graham Brady. The first of how many?
Jenkyns calls Rishi “machiavellian” in getting rid of Boris, and says Braverman was the only person left “with the balls to speak the truth“. No punches pulled…
Read the full letter below:
Guido imagines it’s quite stressful for the Tory Wakefield candidate during this campaign. Not only is the probability of Labour winning 92%, according to the bookies, tensions must be fraught within the local party’s camp. Guido understands Andrea Jenkyns is very heavily involved in both the ground and air war of the party’s campaign, so presumes she must have had time to speak to candidate Nadeem Ahmed about his 2018 views that her call for a confidence vote of Theresa May was “blatantly showboating” and her conduct was “damaging” the party:
“She’s blatantly showboating. The way she’s going about it is very immature.”
“She said: “Come on we need a hat-trick! Boris Johnson let’s be having you! Time for true #Brexiteers to make it happen.”
Coun Ahmed said: “I looked at that, and thought, “You’d expect that from a seven or eight year-old.””
There’s also no word on whether Jenkyns has unblocked her local party adversary, with Nadeem telling the press in 2018 “She’s blocked me on Twitter since last week as well because I didn’t agree with her.” Responding to Ahmed’s attack at the time, Jenkyns told the BBC he should concentrate on “being a stronger opposition leader”. Hopefully they’re all one big happy family now…
Since Guido’s exclusive, monarchists have been tripping over themselves to defend Her Majesty. As Robert Jenrick declared on the BBC this morning, he proudly hangs a picture of the Queen in his office. Jenrick isn’t the only patriotic parliamentarian to show their love for Liz today, though. Other members of Her Majesty’s government have also taken to Twitter to declare their loyalty to the crown…
Andrea Jenkyns told her followers that she is “sick of this woke nonsense”, and posted a photo of her home shrine to Queen Elizabeth with the hashtag “GodSaveTheQueen”.
Oxford Uni removing picture of our Queen! Sick of this woke nonsense. A picture of Her Majesty is proudly displayed in my home. #GodSaveTheQueen pic.twitter.com/Lz303h4Afj
— Andrea Jenkyns MP 🇬🇧 (@andreajenkyns) June 9, 2021
Not to be outdone, Joy Morrissey told her followers that she’s “ordered another portrait of the Queen” for her office, and that she plans to send one to Oxford’s Magdalen College. Guido’s sure they’ll be delighted.
Just ordered another portrait of the Queen to hang in my office - our longest serving Sovereign & Head of State.
— Joy Morrissey MP (@joymorrissey) June 9, 2021
Probably 🤔send one to Oxford’s Magdalen College as well since they seemed to have misplaced a copy… Hope it really brightens up their common room. #GodSaveTheQueen pic.twitter.com/0HUHwOpMDr
Andrea Leadsome, who told Politics Live that the students who voted to take the portrait down were “utterly pathetic”, also showed off her photo:
I love the photo of the Queen that I keep in my office. If Oxford students don’t want theirs, please may I have it? #GodSaveTheQueen https://t.co/Xgr3T53N55 pic.twitter.com/nhhrJgg5ED
— Andrea Leadsom MP (@andrealeadsom) June 9, 2021
Andrew Rosindell has a picture of Her Majesty in his office. Rumour has it that for the 2012 Jubilee he bought thousands of portraits of the Queen and sent them to friends and colleagues all over the world. You can never have too much of a good thing…
A classically forthright Andrea Jenkyns raked in the retweets on Sunday evening, calling for No Deal with the EU, saying “No more talking or moved deadlines, let’s just leave without a deal.”
No more talking or moved deadlines, let's just leave without a deal. The EU will soon come running back begging for one! #NoDealBrexit #GlobalFreeTrade
— Andrea Jenkyns MP 🇬🇧 (@andreajenkyns) December 20, 2020
Yet, as Politeia’s Jonathan Isaby points out, Jenkins is Parliamentary Private Secretary to Robert Jenrick and is therefore regarded as an (albeit junior) member of the government payroll vote and bound by collective responsibility. Guido doubts No Deal is now official Government policy…
