Three consequences from the Jenrick defection

“The struggle for control of the British right” has taken a “dramatic turn”, said The Economist.

Robert Jenrick’s switch from the Conservative Party to Reform UK is “by far the most significant in a string of recent defections”, coming just 72 hours after Nadhim Zahawi made the same move.

“I am proud to be Reform’s 270,000th member,” said Jenrick in The Telegraph. “Both main parties broke Britain” and “the truth is Britain has been in decline for decades”.

But what does it mean for the party he left behind...