Tories must ‘get moving’ on new policies or face crisis, says Robert Jenrick

Jenrick at the Conservative party conference in October. He said on Wednesday: ‘You’ve got to move fast, or else you’ll create vacuums others will step into.’ Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

The Conservative party needs to “get moving” with new policies or risk being cut adrift in a social media-informed world where people make up their minds quickly, Robert Jenrick has said.

While the shadow justice secretary did not directly criticise Kemi Badenoch for the time she is taking to formulate policies, and said he accepted there was a need for reflection after a bad election defeat, he warned that without rapid action the Tories faced an “existential crisis”.