Kemi Badenoch has thanked Nigel Farage for doing her "spring cleaning" - after Tory turncoat Robert Jenrick defected to Reform UK. The Tory chief's comments come after she caught wind of Mr Jenrick's planned move and sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet on Thursday in a day of extraordinary political drama. Hours later Nigel Farage welcomed the 24th ex-Tory MP to his party's ranks - despite previously dismissing Mr Jenrick as a fraud and a man with no convictions. During a series of interviws