Robert Jenrick launches scathing broadside against ‘Kensington Kemi’

Robert Jenrick, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform, talked down the possibility of a coalition deal with his old party. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Robert Jenrick has launched an extended attack on Kemi Badenoch, calling her part of a metropolitan elite and saying a coalition deal with the Tories would be like being “handcuffed to a zombie”.

Reform UK’s economics spokesperson repeatedly called the Tory leader “Kensington Kemi” and claimed her party was for people who moaned about the decline of Mayfair clubs and complained that they could not find Ottolenghi recipe ingredients in the shops.