Newark is an anagram of a 42-year-old MP who still has the speaking style of an undergraduate Prime-Minister-in-waiting. Robert Jenrick's Conservative association has wished him good riddance, and he was late to his own defection because he thought that he was a rockstar as adolescent boys often do. Natalie Elphicke joined Labour, so anything is possible these days, but will next week's Labour defector to Reform UK be happy to be in the same party as Jenrick?
Is Councillor David Hawley of St Helens already happy to be in the same party as Jenrick? 48 hours ago, Councillor Hawley was in the Green Party. Is Jenrick happy to be in the same party as him? And as Councillor Jason Fazackarley, who had sat on Portsmouth City Council both as a Green and for Labour before he moved in November from the Liberal Democrats, who had made him Lord Mayor, to Reform? And Councillor Jeff Sumner of Burnley, also now sitting for Reform having been elected as a Lib Dem? And as at least six sitting Reform councillors who had been elected for Labour, including Councillor Mason Humberstone of Stevenage, who contested internal Labour Party elections on the slate of Morgan McSweeney's Labour Together? Are they all happy to be in the same party as Jenrick?
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