Every establishment defector joining Reform UK not only weakens the party’s revolutionary feel, but also alienates voters who inherently dislike disloyalty as a characteristic, says Emily Sheffield D id Kemi Badenoch have any choice but to sack Robert Jenrick? No, she did not. In politics, you begin to look weak if you do not dispatch the openly disloyal. But how to do it? Fortunately, in the end, Jenrick made it easy by plotting to defect publicly to Reform . And when she moved, she did so