Barbs and a betrayal as Jenrick joins Reform after Badenoch gives him boot

Par :Jessica Elgot · Rowena Mason and Libby Brooks

15 janvier 2026 à 21:22

Former shadow justice secretary shares stage with Nigel Farage in wake of being summarily sacked by Tory leader

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Robert Jenrick made a dramatic defection to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK on Thursday, declaring the Conservatives “rotten” and a “failed” party, after being sacked by Kemi Badenoch for plotting against her.

In a high-stakes day for the future of the British right, Jenrick became the most senior Tory to switch allegiance to Reform, launching into a fiery and personal denunciation of his former colleagues in the shadow cabinet.

Kemi Badenoch sacks Robert Jenrick over ‘defection plans’

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Par :Jessica Elgot and Rowena Mason

15 janvier 2026 à 15:22

Conservative leader says she had ‘irrefutable evidence’ shadow justice secretary was plotting to defect in most damaging way

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Robert Jenrick has been sacked from the shadow cabinet and suspended from the Conservative party after Kemi Badenoch said she was presented with “irrefutable evidence” that he was planning to defect from the party.

The shadow justice secretary was Badenoch’s leadership rival and had long been said to be prepared do a deal with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

X ‘acting to comply with UK law’ after outcry over sexualised images

The Guardian

Par :Robert Booth and Jessica Elgot

14 janvier 2026 à 20:00

New polling suggests 58% of Britons think X should be banned in the UK if the social network fails to crack down on nonconsensual images

Elon Musk’s X is understood to have told the government it is acting to comply with UK law, after nearly a fortnight of public outcry at the use of its AI tool Grok to manipulate images of women and children by removing their clothes.

Keir Starmer told the House of Commons on Wednesday that photographs generated by Grok were “disgusting” and “shameful”, but said he had been informed that X was “acting to ensure full compliance with UK law”.

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