Badenoch\u2019s own personality and policy clash with Jenrick could signal trouble ahead as the ex-Tory competes with Reform\u2019s many egos. <\/p>\n
Farage has frequently traded barbs<\/a> with Jenrick, who he has branded a \u201cfraud\u201d and a \u201chypocrite\u201d \u2014\u00a0 but the potential rift Jenrick\u2019s former Conservative colleagues are most closely watching is with Reform Head of Policy Zia Yusuf. Jenrick branded him \u201cZia Useless\u201d during one online slanging match<\/a> \u2014 although he name-checked Yusuf Thursday in a roll-call paying tribute to his new colleagues.<\/p>\n \u201cAll I would say to Nigel is Rob\u2019s not my problem any more \u2014 he\u2019s your problem,\u201d Badenoch quipped in an interview with GB News.<\/p>\n While Badenoch has publicly ruled out any pacts with Reform to reunite the right ahead of the next general election, Jenrick was always more ambiguous about a potential deal. <\/p>\n With Jenrick out of the Tory tent, an alliance looks less likely. <\/p>\n In welcoming Jenrick, Farage has gone for the Conservative jugular, and committed to absorbing and overthrowing the establishment party in his quest to become the dominant force in right-wing politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n For Keir Starmer\u2019s struggling Labour Party it offers a glimmer of hope.<\/p>\n If splits remain on the right, then Starmer \u2014\u00a0or whoever is prime minister at the the time of the next U.K. general election \u2014 is in a far better position to rally the sizable anti-Farage sentiment that counterbalances his popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Badenoch\u2019s own personality and policy clash with Jenrick could signal trouble ahead as the ex-Tory competes with Reform\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[141794,815,824,5343,461,6816,59,57,58,2795,420,12174,466,821,140190,30072,50,633,470,3721,3852,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-372080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-ammunition","tag-asylum","tag-boris-johnson","tag-culture","tag-elections","tag-fraud","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-immigration","tag-keir-starmer","tag-kemi-badenoch","tag-liz-truss","tag-migration","tag-nadhim-zahawi","tag-nadine-dorries","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-rights","tag-rishi-sunak","tag-robert-jenrick","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}