'This Man Is A Fraud': Unearthed Video Reveals What Farage Used To Think About Robert Jenrick

Nigel Farage said Robert Jenrick was “a fraud” and “not to be trusted” less than six months before his rumoured defection to Reform UK.

The shadow justice secretary was dramatically sacked by Kemi Badenoch after she was shown “irrefutable evidence” that her former Tory leadership rival was planning to jump ship to Farage’s party.

Reacting to the news, Farage admitted he had held “conversations” with Jenrick and said he planned to have further talks with him later today.

But it has now emerged that the Reform leader launched a bitter attack on Jenrick last August at the height of protests outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Essex.

In a video posted on X, Farage said: “You might have seen pictures of Robert Jenrick turning up outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, and what he’s saying is ‘I’m on your side, I’m with you the people, what’s going on is a disgrace’.

“Well, when he was immigration minister just a couple of years ago it was very, very different. Here he is boasting that he’s going to open more migrant hotels than all the ministers that went before him.”

Farage added: “Up to him as immigration minister, we got up to 56,000 people who’d crossed the channel by boat living in hotels.

“He put more people in hotels than even this Labour government, and here we are three years later and he turns up and says ‘I’m on your side’.

“My advice to you would be to say this man is a fraud, this man is not to be trusted, and certainly his party aren’t either.”