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Badenoch warns Tory MPs against plotting and psychodrama

2026-01-20 02:00:06

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has warned her MPs against more plotting and "psychodrama" after two defections from the party in four days.

Former shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick became the most senior Tory to move to Reform UK, after Badenoch discovered he was planning to defect last week, and sacked him.

Andrew Rosindell, who was the shadow minister for foreign affairs for the Conservatives, made the leap to Nigel Farage's party this weekend.

Now Badenoch has called some of her MPs on the right of the party to a meeting on Monday night, to underline the message.

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