It’s a treacherous business, politics. One day you’re the future Tory leader, the next you’re sitting on the independent benches with Ayoub Khan. But Robert Jenrick’s expulsion from the shadow cabinet has meant a spot has opened up at the top table for another leading light. To replace Jenrick as shadow justice secretary, Kemi Badenoch has turned to a man who backed him for leader in 2024: Nick Timothy, the long time tormentor of West Midlands Police.
Timothy is both a newbie and a veteran: a longtime Westminster operator and the first of the 2024 Tory intake to join the shadow cabinet. Like many of the best and brightest, he served his apprenticeship in the Conservative Research Department and then did a longtime spell under Theresa May at the Home Office and then (briefly) No. 10. Badenoch gave him a noticeable shout out at this week’s PMQs for his work exposing the two-tier policing of his local force, headed by the hapless Craig Guildford.
Looks like that one of the remaining 118 Tory MPs is staying put at least…
Watch Tim Shipman and James Heale discuss Jenrick’s sacking on Spectator TV:
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