How an explosive day in British politics unfolded
Robert Jenrick has become the latest in a long line of Tory politicians to defect to Reform UK.
Nigel Farage made the announcement at a chaotic press conference, however, the former shadow justice secretary was absent after being called to the stage.
When Jenrick - who was earlier sacked from the Tories - ran in several minutes later, he launched a scathing attack on his former Conservative colleagues, listing their individual shortfalls one by one.
It comes after Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch announced she had fired him on Thursday due to “irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect” from the party in a manner as "damaging as possible” to the Tories.
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