By Iain Dale

If you want to kill a snake in the grass, the best thing to do is cut its head off. That’s what Kemi Badenoch has done to Robert Jenrick, and it’s not before time.

I make it my business to have good relationships with politicians across the political spectrum, and it’s rare that I’m not on speaking terms with any of them.

Robert Jenrick has been a rare exception to that rule. A year ago last week, I wrote an article in the ‘I’ newspaper in which I called out Jenrick for some outrageous comments he had made on social media about ‘alien cultures’ and ‘medieval attitudes’. He appeared to be tarring all muslims with the same brush. I remember messaging Kemi Badenoch advising her to sack him.

I wrote that he was using the language of Tommy Robinson and words have consequences. Jenrick didn’t take my words well, and we haven’t spoken since, and I haven’t interviewed him since.

I am still perplexed as to........

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