Former UK chancellor defects to Reform
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UK’s Conservative Party leader torpedoes defection of chief rival by firing him first
Britain's Conservative Party, which governed the country from 2010 until it suffered its worst-ever electoral defeat two years ago, was plunged into fresh turmoil Thursday after its leader sacked the man widely seen as her greatest rival for apparently plotting to defect to a rival right-wing party.
In a dramatic turn of events, Kemi Badenoch sacked Robert Jenrick after claiming he was planning to defect to Reform, which he did hours later.
Robert Jenrick has denied his defection to Reform UK was about personal ambition, telling the BBC it was "uniting the right" of British politics. The former minister joined Nigel Farage's party on Thursday, hours after he was sacked from the Conservative shadow cabinet for plotting to defect.