Robert Jenrick’s Defection Could Kill Nigel Farage’s Hopes of Becoming Prime Minister

The Reform leader says the Tories broke Britain and now he wants their help to break it all over again

Robert Jenrick is a fraud and a hypocrite. That’s not just my view, that’s the view of one Nigel Farage, who has spent years describing him as everything that is wrong with British politics, only to this week warmly welcome him into Reform UK.

“The Tories broke Britain,” Tweeted Farage, shortly after inviting not just the former Tory Immigration Minister into his party, but former Tory Chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, too.

So not only does Farage think that the Tories are hypocritical frauds who broke Britain, but now he wants their help to break it all over again.

The Reform leader wasn’t the only one suddenly changing their mind about the former Shadow Justice Secretary.

Kemi Badenoch, who previously praised Jenrick’s “energy and determination” and insisted that he had a “key role to play in our party for many years to come,” has now suddenly decided that he is a “liar” who can’t be trusted with their own child’s lunch money.

“Reform needs to be looking at the type of person they’re taking in,” said Badenoch, who invited Jenrick into her own Shadow Cabinet, despite his own long record of personal scandal, and then kept him in the job despite him steadily transforming himself into an Ocado Tommy Robinson.

So overwhelming has this week’s carnival of shamelessness been, that it would be easy to miss quite how significant it has been for the future of British politics.

Here’s why Jenrick’s defection could genuinely be a turning point in the outcome of the next general election and the key to stopping Farage becoming Prime Minister.