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Badenoch at odds with Jenrick over 'broken' Britain

Badenoch at odds with Jenrick over 'broken' Britain

After her former minister Robert Jenrick chastised the party for refusing to campaign on this line, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has maintained that Britain is not broken.

Ours is still one of the world's most prosperous, adaptable, and influential nations,
she wrote in the Daily Telegraph, adding that telling voters that their country is finished only "drags them down. Jenrick was fired as a result of his defection to Reform, and she maintained that the Conservatives were stronger after he was fired. In an interview with Laura Kuenssberg of the BBC on Friday, Jenrick said that a shadow cabinet meeting where colleagues struggled to agree that the country was broken had been the final straw for him.

Badenoch wrote an editorial in which she pointed to the fact that there were problems in the UK, some of which were getting worse, but that the country's best days lay ahead. Reform was supposed to fail unless the Conservatives were able to provide solutions to the country's challenges, according to her, toxic people who destroy companies are distroy organisations.A movement based on resentment and serial disloyalty is doomed to fail, and it will be at each other's throats soon enough,the opposition leader wrote. Badenoch saidsome things in Britain are broken, but not broken beyond repair

in a separateeditorial in the Daily Express. Instead of revealing that they have a scheme to restore it, she also chastised politicians who
talk Britain down rather than stating that they do not have backed up. Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice praised Jenrick as
the only cabinet minister who resigned on a matter of principle from the Conservative government,
he told BBC Newsnight on Friday. This was in reference to Jenrick's decision to resign from Rishi Sunak's government, who said that it was not going to be enough to find a solution to fast-rising immigration numbers.
That makes him uniquely qualified to tell where things went wrong on both legal and illegal immigration, which is to the fury of tens of millions of British citizens.
Robert has a wealth of experience, and we've been chastised for not having the knowledge and expertise to control and control things,Tice said on Saturday. Jenrick's resignationwas never about principle, it was about passion,Badenoch said, andevery criticism he now receives occurred when he was in office. According to her, the Conservative Party now has a "stronger and more united team. Badenoch is hoping that her dismissal of Jenrick would cement her position as Tory leader and make her appear more deterministic. However, reform UK now has a new, influential MP who is keen on highlighting what he sees as the many mistakes of his predecessor party's leadership.

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