TORY leader Kemi Badenoch is under pressure to sack Robert Jenrick as shadow justice secretary after he called for a pact with the hard-right Reform party.

Mr Jenrick, who was Ms Badenoch’s rival for the Conservative leadership last year, warned a private Tory meeting last month that “you head towards the general election, where the nightmare scenario is that Keir Starmer sails in through the middle as a result of the two parties being disunited. I’m not prepared for that to happen.

“I want the right to be united. One way or another, I’m determined to do that and to bring this coalition together and make sure we unite as a nation as well.”