Robert Jenrick said in his speech setting out why he was defecting to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK that the shadow cabinet had had a discussion recently about whether Britain was “broken”.
For Mr Jenrick, that Britain is wrecked is self-evident and unquestionable. He feigned surprise that “almost all” of Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet said “it’s not broken” and that “we were told that’s the party line”.
