
Robert Jenrick has accused the Tories of lacking the “stomach for the radical change this country needs” as he defected to Reform UK after being sacked from Kemi Badenoch’s front bench.
In a scathing attack on his former party that he said had “failed so badly” in government, the ex-minister said the Conservatives in Westminster were “not sorry” and “in denial – or being dishonest” about what they had done.