Robert Jenrick was described as “the new sheriff in town” and the politician needed by Reform to give them experience and political “heft”, according to a leaked media plan for his defection prepared by his aides. The emergence of the document, which also describes Jenrick as “the most dynamic politician in the Conservative party”, came as Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s head of policy, hailed the defection, after days of silence from one of Nigel Farage’s key aides. Allies of Jenrick said the document, obtained by Kemi Badenoch’s office and passed to newspapers, was not written by him. However, extracts of
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