Badenoch sacks Jenrick!
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Kemi Badenoch has sensationally sacked shadow minister Robert Jenrick claiming he was secretly plotting to defect from the party in a way that was “as damaging as possible”.
Reform has refused to confirm if Jenrick was planning to defect, although party leader Nigel Farage has said he ‘might’ buy him a sympathy pint. While Labour and the Lib Dems have been quick off the mark to take advantage of the political unrest by creating memes.
Adam and Laura are joined from Westminster by Henry Zeffman and Alex Forsyth to break down what we know.
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| 0:24.5 | Hello, when the news broke at 11 o'clock on Thursday morning that Kemi Badenock was |
| 0:28.3 | sacking Robert Jenrick over claims he was planning a high-profile defection to another political |
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| 1:26.0 | because we're doing a live episode today to talk about the news that has gripped Westminster ever since 11 o'clock this morning, |
| 1:30.5 | where Kemi Badernock, the Tory leader, sensationally announced that she was sacking Robert Jenrick from the shadowed cabinet, |
| 1:36.4 | where he was shadowed justice secretary, and, for good measure, chucking him out of the Conservative Parliamentary Party. |
| 1:42.2 | She says because she'd been presented with |
| 1:44.8 | incontrovertible evidence that he was going to defect. We've got some of the members of the |
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