'Like A Marriage Counselling Session': Jenrick Awkwardly Reunites With Tory MP Live On TV

The Reform MP defected from the Conservative frontbench at the start of the year.

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Robert Jenrick had a very tense reunion with one of his onetime Conservative colleagues on live TV on Friday as they argued over his painful defection to Reform.

Jenrick, who is now Reform’s Treasury spokesperson, was celebrating his party’s success on the BBC after it won more than 400 seats in the local elections in England.

But he was sat next to Victoria Atkins, the Conservatives’ shadow environment secretary – and she quickly got personal.

“Robert and I haven’t actually spoken to each other since I supported his leadership [bid to take over the Tories],” the MP for Louth and Horncastle........

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