The leader of the UK's opposition Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch, said on Thursday that she had sacked the man widely seen as her greatest rival for apparently plotting to defect to the hard-right Reform UK.
Badenoch said in a video and statement on X that she sacked the party's justice spokesperson Robert Jenrick due to "irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" in a way that was "designed to be as damaging as possible" to the party.
