Kemi Badenoch announced on Thursday that Robert Jenrick had been sacked for plotting to defect to Reform UK. His resignation speech was found “lying around” and he had previously met Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, for dinner, with the Tory leader saying she had been presented with “clear, irrefutable evidence” that he was conspiring to jump ship.

Reform UK has grown from a fringe euroskeptic movement into a major force in British politics. By railing against immigration and the rising cost of living, the party led by Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage has siphoned support from the governing Labour party and Conservative opposition to fracture the old two-party system.

Ahead of the June 3 local elections, a spokesperson from the People Power Party made remarks toward the Reform Party, saying, “They are engaging in nomination profiteering,” but immediately apologized after the Reform Party protested.

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 from the party.

The populist Reform party is suing the UK government, challenging proposals that may delay local elections, according to a court order.

Within just a few hours of being publicly sacked from the shadow cabinet by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick held a press conference to announce he was joining Reform. Badenoch cited “clear, irrefutable evidence” the Jenrick had been plotting to defect to Reform in a maximally damaging way.

Earlier, on the 13th, after Leaders Jang and Lee met, the two parties began full-scale cooperation on the so-called ‘special counsel collaboration.’ The parties are demanding a ‘dual special counsel’ to investigate allegations of nomination funds from the Democratic Party of Korea and lobbying suspicions involving the Unification Church in

This video can not be played This is uniting the right, says Jenrick in BBC exclusive Edited by Rorey Bosotti and Tiffany Wertheimer Jenrick claims 'two main parties are rotten' in first speech as Reform member Jenrick says "Britain is completely broken".