Robert Jenrick has been sacked as shadow justice secretary over a supposed ‘secret plot’ to defect from the Conservatives.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch posted a video online accusing her one-time leadership rival of planning to exit ‘in a way designed to be as damaging as possible’.
She said: ‘The British public are tired of political psychodrama and so am I.
‘They saw too much of it in the last government, they’re seeing too much of it in this government.’
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