Jenrick Joins Reform!
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In the 2000th episode of Newscast, Adam and Chris return for second helpings as Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform is confirmed.
Following his dramatic sacking via social media this morning, Jenrick appeared on stage with Reform leader Nigel Farage this afternoon to announce that he was joining the party.
Farage told reporters that although they had been negotiating the possibility of Jenrick joining Reform - the deal wasn’t done until Kemi Badenoch made her move this morning.
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| 0:24.5 | Chris, this is the 2000th ever episode of Newscast. |
| 0:28.1 | That is extraordinary, because it doesn't seem long ago since we were marking, now, |
| 0:31.7 | would it have been the 1500th or the 1,000th? Either it was a big landmark, anyway. |
| 0:35.7 | We've done a lot of anniversaries. We've done a lot of |
| 0:37.7 | anniversaries. We like to celebrate our birthdays or whatever they are. 2000. That's a whole |
| 0:44.4 | lot of verbiage, isn't it? And in keeping with the 1,99 preceding episodes, this is a completely |
| 0:50.6 | unplanned extra episode where we've assembled to do some breaking news that we weren't |
| 0:54.1 | expecting to do, and so we're just going to see what happens. Terrific. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tappletail in the class. Can I have an apology, please? I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio for the 2000th time. And it is Chris at Westminster, wondering if we'll reach 3,000 by... This week? What do we think? Yeah, April. |
| 1:28.9 | I mean, at the rate the news works these days, you never know. |
| 1:31.8 | Exactly. |
| 1:32.5 | Where actually did you begin the day of the 2000th episode of newscast? |
| 1:36.3 | So I woke up in fantastic Ponti Preeth in the valleys of South Wales, what, about 12 miles north of Cardiff. |
| 1:44.2 | Had a lovely run before dawn this morning. |
| 1:46.7 | And we were out and about making some pieces about the Senate elections coming up to the Welsh Parliament in May, |
| 1:52.8 | which are going to be fascinating, labour under kind of colossal pressure. |
| 1:56.0 | And then we were in a community centre in Murphi Tidville talking to a great bunch of folk about, you know, |
| 2:00.2 | life in contemporary Wales and how they find things and how they're thinking about things politically |
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