The Conservative leader sacked Mr Jenrick from her shadow cabinet and ousted him from the Tory party after being shown a speech he planned to – then did – make as he defected to Nigel Farage’s party<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Not a lot of people [in the Tory party] are that sad that Robert Jenrick’s gone,” she said.<\/p>\n “I mean, that might well be just because nobody likes to think well of somebody that left you, but I mean, no tears, crying.”<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49 Click here to follow Electoral Dysfunction wherever you get your podcasts<\/a> \ud83d\udc48<\/p>\n Image: Ms Badenoch was defiant moments before Mr Jenrick announced his defection, telling Rigby: “Rob is clearly a problem, but he’s not my problem. He’s Nigel Farage’s problem now.”<\/p>\n Baroness Davidson said that response “was pretty strong and she came across as decisive”.<\/p>\n “I’ve been critical of Kemi Badenoch in the past, but you know, she didn’t ask him to stay, she didn’t try and negotiate with him,” she said.<\/p>\n “She knew exactly what needed to be done.<\/p>\n “And I think she’s probably going to have a little bit of a mini bounce within the party because of the way she’s handled this.”<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n \n Badenoch showed her authority by pushing Jenrick before he jumped<\/p>\n Read more: There have been suggestions Mr Jenrick wanted to replace Ms Badenoch as leader, and was hoping to do so after the May local elections.<\/p>\n But Baroness Davidson said: “This suggests to me that if Jenrick really thought Badenoch was going to be out after May, he would have stuck around to be part of the next leadership.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been “no tears” shed over Robert Jenrick’s departure from the Conservative Party, former Scottish Tory leader…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-372853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372853","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=372853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ruth](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/skynews-ruth-davidson-electoral-dysfunction_6985098.png\")
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\n Ruth Davidson said no tears have been shed over Robert Jenrick’s sacking<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/skynews-reform-politics-uk_7136496.jpg\")
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Robert Jenrick has gone from centrist Remainer to Reform<\/a>
I’m ashamed of Starmer, says rebel Labour MP<\/a><\/p>\n