It is perhaps fair to say that few ministers will emerge from the Conservative conference with their reputations enhanced. But it is also arguable that not many would have expected Jake Berry to be among the particular casualties.
Berry, the Rossendale and Darwen MP since 2010 and the longtime chair of the Northern Research Group, was made party chair by Liz Truss in the hope his links with the “red wall” MPs, for whom he was something of a pioneer, would keep a new, untested government in touch with voters.
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