{"id":7044561,"date":"2026-08-23T03:22:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/badenoch-says-reform-defectors-some-of-the-most-dishonest-people-i-have-met-kemi-badenoch\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:22:45","slug":"badenoch-says-reform-defectors-some-of-the-most-dishonest-people-i-have-met-kemi-badenoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7044561","title":{"rendered":"Badenoch says Reform defectors \u2018some of the most dishonest people I have met\u2019 | Kemi Badenoch"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Kemi Badenoch has called defectors who left for Reform \u201csome of the most dishonest people\u201d she has ever met, as she ruled out allowing \u201cdrama queens\u201d to return to the party.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Edinburgh festival fringe, the Conservative party leader again ruled out any prospect of an election deal with Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK, insisting there would be no coalition between the parties.<\/p>\n

\u201cReform has people who left the Conservative party, some of the most dishonest people I have ever met in my entire life,\u201d Badenoch told event host Iain Dale on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Multiple current or former parliamentarians have joined Reform from the Conservatives, including the former home secretary Suella Braverman<\/a> and the former shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick. After being sacked by Badenoch for plotting against her, Jenrick called his former party \u201crotten\u201d and \u201cfailed\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hitting out at those such as Jenrick who defected, Badenoch said: \u201cThese are people who left us when we were at our lowest, many of them the people who caused the problems in the first place and then ran away and pretended they had nothing to do with it. Why should we have them back?\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Reform UK\u2019s shadow chancellor Robert Jenrick left the Tory party in January of this year.<\/span> Photograph: Phil Lewis\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Conservative leader said she doesn\u2019t want \u201cdrama queens\u201d in the party, adding that she\u2019s not \u201centertaining\u201d parliamentarians she has heard are having indirect approaches from previous defectors.<\/p>\n

Badenoch said Farage\u2019s party \u201cis all over the place\u201d and suggested the party announces a policy and forgets it the following day.<\/p>\n

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