"This morning we start with follow-up and reaction to Robert Jenrick's dramatic sacking from the Tories and subsequent if not depressingly unsurprising defection to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party. The shadow justice secretary was Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch's leadership rival and had been the bookies favourite to replace her after she failed to make any sort of impact on the polls."
"Timothy said: I've said as a Conservative I'm sorry for the way the party has handled certain things in those last years and I've been very open about that since I was elected for the first time 18 months ago. The Conservative party will not move on and not persuade people to vote for us in the future in the numbers that we need unless we do look them in the eye and say we understand why we lost that election."
"Timothy added that Jenrick was a friend of mine but that the public were sick of the backbiting and the backstabbing in politics. He said: Yeah, Rob's been a friend of mine for some time. It's obviously disappointing that he's decided to move on, but the thing is, what we learned yesterday is the clear contrast between the Conservatives led by Kemi Badenoch and the other parties and what they offer Britain today."
Robert Jenrick was sacked from the shadow cabinet, suspended from the Conservative party, and then defected to Nigel Farage's Reform UK. Jenrick had been shadow justice secretary and a leadership rival to Kemi Badenoch, and was once the bookmakers' favourite to replace her after poor polling. Kemi Badenoch said she had been presented with irrefutable evidence that he planned to defect. Nigel Farage presented Jenrick as a Reform recruit alongside other former Conservatives. Nick Timothy apologised for how the Conservatives handled recent years, said the country had been let down, and urged the party to acknowledge why voters deserted it.
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