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Kemi Badnock Condemned by insisting Britain is “not broken” and remains “one of the most successful countries on earth” Robert Jenrick After he defected Reform Britain.
The Tory leader hit back at the former shadow justice secretary after he described Britain as “broken” during a press conference with Nigel Farage last Thursday.
Speaking to reporters after announcing his defection, Mr Jenrick blamed the Conservatives and Labor Party on Britain’s economic recession and insisted that only reform could solve the problem.
but in an article daily telegraphMrs Badenock sought to send a more positive message to voters about Britain’s future.
She wrote: “Our country remains one of the most successful, resilient and influential on earth. A country that is constantly reinventing itself. A country where its people quietly take care of things while politicians argue.
“Telling them that their country is finished does not empower the British people but wears them down.”
She later added: “Yes, Britain’s problems are real and in some cases have gotten worse. But Britain is not broken. We are a great country with deep reserves of strength, talent and resilience.
“What is failing is a system that is too focused on process rather than results, on intervention rather than results. Labour’s answer to every problem is another consultation, another review, another layer of state control. It won’t make people richer. On the contrary, it will make them poorer.”
Earlier this week, Mr Jenrick claimed in an interview British Broadcasting Corporation He defected in an effort to “unite the right” and insisted he was putting country before allegiance to the Conservatives. He also denied that personal ambition played a role in his defection to the reformists.
Just hours before Mr Jenrick’s sudden defection, Mrs Badenoch sacked him as shadow justice secretary and suspended him from the Conservative Party, saying she had evidence he was plotting to defect to the Reform Party.
Although both he and Mr Farage said his defection was not planned on Thursday, Mr Jenrick told the media British Broadcasting Corporation He “decided” to go during the Christmas holidays.
But the “last straw” came last week during a shadow cabinet day out, where he debated frontbench MPs over whether the UK was “collapsed”.
Jenrick said some colleagues agreed with him that Britain was broken, but argued they could not say so publicly because the Conservatives, who had been in government for 14 years, were responsible.
During a visit to Aberdeen on Friday, Mrs Badenock ruled out any deal with the Reform Council before the next election.
“How do you deal with liars? How do you deal with people who have been saying things that are patently untrue for years?”
Labor Party chairwoman Anna Turley also slammed Jenrick’s comments, calling him “one of the arsonists who brought chaos and decline” to the UK when he was a Conservative minister in the previous government.