Days before members have to vote on who should succeed Rishi Sunak, the two leadership contenders have been exchanging increasingly personal jabs.
Although the competition has been quite friendly thus far, Ms. Badenoch stated last week that she was more qualified for the top position since she had never been fired for a “whiff of impropriety.”
The remarks to The Telegraph newspaper seemed to be a jab at Mr. Jenrick’s involvement in a planning issue during his tenure as housing secretary in 2020, a role from which Boris Johnson eventually fired him.
“It is a great shame that Kemi has chosen at this last minute to sully that, to trade personal attacks and insults,” Mr. Jenrick said, calling the statements “garbage.” He added that the other candidates for leadership had collaborated.
“If Kemi does this to Conservative colleagues, this will be the death of the Conservative Party,” he continued in an interview with News’ The Camilla Tominey Show.
I want the drama to stop. I want to put an end to the disinformation and these trivial arguments. The people have had enough of this. This type of trash must stop immediately.
