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Tory defector Carswell challenged at PMQs
TORY defector Douglas Carswell faced the wrath of spurned former Conservative colleagues yesterday at Prime Ministers Questions, writes Luke James.
The reassuring grin of Ukip everyman Nigel Farage was replaced with massed ranks of scowling Tories as he took his seat on the opposition benches.
He also risked a dose of Dennis Skinner’s wrath by sitting on the bench usually reserved for left Labour MPs.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
