Jenrick and Badenoch accuse each other of lying over 'special place in hell' message

Robert Jenrick has published backstage texts allegedly from a Tory authoritative aft the party's leader, Kemi Badenoch, accused him of lying.

It comes aft the MP, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK past week, claimed Tory main whip Rebecca Harris contacted him successful 2024 to accidental determination was "a peculiar spot successful hell" for him.

He alleged Ms Harris "messaged maine with a litany of insults" aft helium wrote an nonfiction for the Mail connected Sunday, successful which helium called for the UK's overseas assistance fund to beryllium halved to money an summation successful defence spending.

When quizzed astir the allegation, Mrs Badenoch said Mr Jenrick was "lying" astir the speech and said it was her party's argumentation to walk much wealth connected the British subject and "take it distant from aid".

Mrs Badenoch told GB News earlier connected Friday: "He's lying. And I deliberation it's a existent shame he's being allowed to aerial these views. He's near the enactment – it's clip for him to determination on."

But hours later, Mr Jenrick posted an representation of messages purporting to beryllium from Ms Harris, which helium captioned with the words: "They inactive won't archer the truth."

According to the purported texts, the main whip told Mr Jenrick: "Leave the enactment and beryllium a commentator... Go away... You're a bloodsucker.

"You person a truly peculiar spot successful hell".

She allegedly continued: "Running america down successful nationalist conscionable to consciousness bully connected eden knows what ground / if you aren't blessed with the absorption of question good – delight usage your enactment connections to woody with it but not successful nationalist – champion denote you and Suella [Braverman] are stranding [sic] down now."

"You've mislaid the plot," Ms Harris appears to add.

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A Conservative Party root responded to the station by accusing Mr Jenrick of "lying again and misrepresenting an speech helium had implicit 2 years ago".

They added: "Those messages person perfectly thing to bash with cutting overseas aid. Instead, they amusement a authorities whip trying to crushed with idiosyncratic who was moving with the 'Grid of Shit' plotters, and whose scheming helped lend to a Labour landslide and the worst effect for the Conservative Party successful its history.

"With his emotion of backstabbing and psychodrama, Jenrick volition acceptable close successful with Reform."

The enactment is the latest twist successful a heated warfare of words betwixt Mr Jenrick and his erstwhile enactment pursuing his defection.

Despite the evident notation to Ms Braverman successful the substance by Ms Harris, she remains a subordinate of the Conservatives and has not near the party.