Robert Jenrick has revealed personal texts allegedly from a Tory official after the social gathering’s chief, Kemi Badenoch, accused him of mendacity.
It comes after the MP, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK final week, claimed Tory chief whip Rebecca Harris contacted him in 2024 to say there was “a particular place in hell” for him.
He alleged Ms Harris “messaged me with a litany of insults” after he wrote an article for the Mail on Sunday, through which he known as for the UK’s overseas support funds to be halved to fund a rise in defence spending.
When quizzed concerning the allegation, Mrs Badenoch stated Mr Jenrick was “mendacity” concerning the change and stated it was her social gathering’s coverage to spend extra money on the British army and “take it away from support”.
Mrs Badenoch informed GB Information earlier on Friday: “He is mendacity. And I feel it is an actual disgrace he is being allowed to air these views. He is left the social gathering – it is time for him to maneuver on.”
However hours later, Mr Jenrick posted a picture of messages purporting to be from Ms Harris, which he captioned with the phrases: “They nonetheless will not inform the reality.”
The screenshot posted by Mr Jenrick
In accordance with the purported texts, the chief whip informed Mr Jenrick: “Depart the social gathering and be a commentator… Go away… You are a bloodsucker.
“You’ve got a very particular place in hell”.
She allegedly continued: “Operating us down in public simply to really feel good on heaven is aware of what foundation / in the event you aren’t pleased with the course of journey high quality – please use your social gathering connections to take care of it however not in public – greatest announce you and Suella [Braverman] are stranding [sic] down now.”
“You’ve got misplaced the plot,” Ms Harris seems so as to add.
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A Conservative Social gathering supply responded to the put up by accusing Mr Jenrick of “mendacity once more and misrepresenting an change he had over two years in the past”.
They added: “These messages have completely nothing to do with slicing overseas support. As an alternative, they present a authorities whip attempting to cause with somebody who was working with the ‘Grid of Shit’ plotters, and whose scheming helped contribute to a Labour landslide and the worst end result for the Conservative Social gathering in its historical past.
“Together with his love of backstabbing and psychodrama, Jenrick will match proper in with Reform.”
The row is the newest twist in a heated confrontation between Mr Jenrick and his former social gathering following his defection.
Regardless of the obvious reference to Ms Braverman within the textual content by Ms Harris, she stays a member of the Conservatives and has not left the social gathering.
