This weekend’s Conservative Party Conference should be fun, if the ongoing pyschodrama between leader Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary still running last year’s contest, is anything to go by.
In this week’s Spectator Badenoch is interviewed by political editor Tim Shipman, who mischievously posits that she must be delighted that Jenrick, who continues to veer wildly off-brief, is so forthright with his opinions.
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“Yes. But most of them are my thoughts repackaged,” she says.
“I don’t mind that he says what he thinks. The advantage of having a leadership contest is that you’ve kind of already said what you think. Repeating it, which is what Rob tends to do, is not new information.” Miaow!
Fun fact: it is 31 days until Jenrick can launch a leadership challenge, with just 40 letters needed to trigger a vote of no confidence.
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