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The 'smoking gun' that made Badenoch take out Robert Jenrick: Tory leader's allies 'found defection speech and media plan'... but will Reform welcome him now?

In a crucial moment that could help decide the future of British politics, Kemi Badenoch announced that she had seen 'irrefutable evidence' that the shadow justice secretary was intending to betray her. He is alleged to have left the text of a near-completed resignation speech and a 'media plan' lying around where it could be discovered - although when challenged by the Tory chief whip Rebecca Harris in a phone call this morning he apparently protested his innocence.

LIVETories call on Kemi Badenoch to release evidence of Robert Jenrick's 'defection plot' after sacking him

LIVE UPDATES: Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has dramatically sacked her former leadership rival Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet. Catch all the latest updates here.

POLL OF THE DAY: Are Brits 'tired of political psychodrama', as Kemi Badenoch said after sacking Robert Jenrick?

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says she has sacked Robert Jenrick as shadow justice secretary and kicked him out of the party due to 'irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect'.

Was Robert Jenrick a Traitor all along? Internet explodes with hilarious memes after Kemi Badenoch sacks him over 'defection' plan

The Liberal Democrats broke out Photoshop to reimagine Jenrick, who had been shadow justice secretary, as a Traitor on the hit BBC show.

EXCLUSIVERonnie Wood's son Jesse claims that since splitting from Fearne Cotton he has been unemployed and living on barely £1,000 a month - as he appears in court on speeding charges

Jesse Wood claims that since splitting from Fearne Cotton he has been unemployed and

The musician, 49, is the son of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood who is worth £100 million - and himself lives in a £3 million townhouse in Richmond.

Freddie Mercury's 'secret' daughter dies aged 48: 'Bibi' passes away following long battle with spinal cancer months after her existence was revealed in Queen singer's biography

The Daily Mail can today reveal for the first time that the Queen singer called her 'Bibi'.

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EXCLUSIVERICHARD EDEN: Meghan and Harry 'plot' and why Prince William and Kate have REALLY hired a crisis expert. There's trouble ahead...

When The Mail on Sunday revealed at the weekend that Prince Williamand Catherine had hired a crisis-management expert, Liza Ravenscroft, many readers will have been left bemused.

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Jesse Wood is unemployed and living on £1K a month

Vogue Williams shares videos of her empty £4.25m flat

Sophie Turner is seen for the first time as Lara Croft

Love Island: All Stars has most explosive launch ever

Katie Price and daughter, 18, splash out on shopping spree

Vick Hope shows off her figure in a floral bandeau bikini

Jesse Wood is unemployed and living on £1K a month

Vogue Williams shares videos of her empty £4.25m flat

Sophie Turner is seen for the first time as Lara Croft

Love Island: All Stars has most explosive launch ever

Katie Price and daughter, 18, splash out on shopping spree

Vick Hope shows off her figure in a floral bandeau bikini

Jesse Wood is unemployed and living on £1K a month

Vogue Williams shares videos of her empty £4.25m flat

Sophie Turner is seen for the first time as Lara Croft

Love Island: All Stars has most explosive launch ever

Katie Price and daughter, 18, splash out on shopping spree

Vick Hope shows off her figure in a floral bandeau bikini

'The end of the world as we know it': Poland warns of 'disaster' if NATO nations turn on each other over Trump's bid to claim Greenland as Danish troops arrive in the region

Poland's Prime Minister said that his country would not send soldiers to Greenland, making clear that any aggression between NATO allies would shatter global security.

Fifteen of my friends in their 40s and 50s have left their husbands. This is the real reason EVERYONE is divorcing... and why your marriage is at risk without you realizing it

On Monday a friend told me that she was leaving her 'miserable marriage'. I didn't know there was anything miserable about it, although I'd always thought she was more fun than her boring husband.

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BREAKING NEWSExplosions rock Utrecht, with buildings damaged and multiple people feared to be injured

Explosions in Utrecht have caused extensive damage to buildings, and it is feared that several people have been left injured.

My refusal to join the Freemasons cost me dearly. This is the sinister truth about how they've infiltrated the police - and don't think for a minute they are dying out, writes a former senior Met officer, too afraid to give his name

More than 300 officers and staff in the Metropolitan Police have owned up to membership of the Freemasons or 'other hierarchical associations' in the past month.

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Princess Kate welcomes England's Red Roses to Windsor Castle to celebrate their Women's Rugby World Cup triumph

The royal followed the team's campaign in her role as patron of the Rugby Football Union, watching from the stands when they defeated Australia in Brighton in a pool match.

EXCLUSIVEMan who hasn't slept for TWO YEARS: Train driver Oliver's a medical mystery. Now he tells of horrifying condition that's wrecked his health, how he lost everything... and why his eyes feel like they're melting out of his skull

Two years ago Oliver Alvis was the sort of young man every parent hopes their son will be. Diligent, clean-living, responsible, he worked long hours as a train driver and had paid off the mortgage.

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I'm no longer sleeping with my husband - and never will again, says MOLLY RYDDELL. I love him, but counted down the moments until he climaxed. Then I couldn't bear it any more and the truth spilled out... so many women feel the same

After an afternoon lazing by the pool, followed by a romantic meal and a good bottle of wine, you'd assume an evening of intimacy was next on the agenda.

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Police officers 'raped and tortured victims in Lisbon and filmed their abuse to share with other cops in WhatsApp group'

Two Lisbon police officers have been accused of torturing and raping people, filming their alleged abuse and sharing the videos on WhatsApp (Pictured, file image of Lisbon police)

M&S reveals 500 'wish list' locations for new stores as it unveils huge expansion plans - could one be coming to a town near YOU?

NEW There are currently 330 stores across the UK, but the retailer is hoping to have 180 mixed stores and 420 dedicated food shops within the coming years.

I tried exercise regimes, celebrity personal trainers, a bean diet and every fat jab that Big Pharma could squeeze into a pen: Now JACK BARHAM reveals what worked... and didn't

It was my mother who launched me on my weight-loss journey shortly after Christmas several years ago by buying me a blue gym top. When I tried it on, it was at least two sizes too small. At the time I was a food-obsessed, slightly chubby 27-year-old and my darling mother was too polite to say: 'Isn't it time you spent more time at the gym, tubby?'

EXCLUSIVE'They aren't gangs. They're clans linked by caste and they fight over honour': Inside the murky world of Kabaddi, the sinister way the sport is thriving in Britain - and the violent rivalries that saw a man hacked to death with a machete

Today a Daily Mail investigation reveals that the Alvaston carnage was far from an isolated incident and more and more meetings around the sport are now affected by violence and intimidation.

'My eyes were weeping blood. I thought I was going to die': This terrifying syndrome made me cry blood and my skin fall off in chunks... and this is why a reaction to a common cough medicine was to blame

Struggling with routine symptoms of a bad cold - including an irritating cough and headache - Jo Daniels thought nothing of reaching for a household cough medication she'd often used in the past.

Hitman disguised as Deliveroo rider when he shot eight-year-old girl on her birthday as she sat in car with parents and little sister is jailed for 38 years

Jazz Reid, pictured, from Uxbridge in west London, left the little girl with serious injuries after he opened fire on the car she was in while dressed as a delivery driver in November 2024.

Lucy Connolly is warned she faces prison recall for resharing 'tongue-in-cheek' X post about Venezuela

Former childminder Lucy Connolly from Northampton was jailed for 31 months in October 2024 for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers after the Southport murders.

Moment teenager launches bottle attack on 'paedophile' is shown to murder trial after 49-year-old 'was lured to meeting with girl, 16, and beaten to death with rocks'

The moment a teenager launched a bottle attack on a man who was branded a paedophile and beaten to death with rocks has been shown in court. Three teenagers - a 16-year-old girl and two boys, 15 and 16 - are accused of murdering Alexander Cashford, 49, on the Isle of Sheppey last August after they allegedly lured him there to meet the girl. All three children, who had travelled to the seaside resort from London for a holiday, deny the murder charges against them, but the 16-year-old boy today admitted to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

BREAKING NEWSBritain's 'biggest fare dodger' admits riding for free 112 times and not paying for more than £18,000 of train tickets

NEW Charles Brohiri, 29, freeloaded from train company Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) for almost two years, riding on railways across the south and east of England without paying his way.

One of the world's most expensive buffets is in the UK - with oysters, lobster and free-flowing champagne for £190 per person

For those who have grown tired of the greasy, mundane offerings of chips and spring rolls typically served up at local buffets, a lavish alternative awaits - but it'll cost a pretty penny.

Jeremy Clarkson's tricky Millionaire Hot Seat question leaves two ITV players stumped - but can you defy the odds and solve it?

NEW Jeremy Clarkson hosts this fast-paced spin off to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, which launched earlier this month.

Pensioner facing home seizure in boundary dispute over 1ft strip of land loses last-ditch court bid

Jenny Field, 77, is due to have her £420,000 bungalow in Poole, Dorset, seized at the end of the month by bailiffs after losing a five-year legal battle over a 1ft strip of land.

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Waitress blamed for starting Swiss inferno 'was made to wear crash helmet which stopped her from seeing sparklers' by female nightclub owner 'she had fallen out with'

The waitress blamed for starting the New Year's fire at a Swiss ski resort bar was made to wear a promotional crash helmet, which prevented her from seeing sparklers, a witness has claimed. Cyane Panine, 24, was filmed wearing the crash helmet from Dom Perignon, the Champagne brand, as she was lifted onto the shoulders of Mateo Lesguer, 23, the in-house DJ. This was 'at the request' of the bar manager, Jessica Moretti, 40, the witness states in an official report compiled by the Swiss authorities.

Amol Rajan announces he's leaving BBC News and Radio 4's Today programme - as he reveals he wants to 'unleash his inner Del Boy' and 'create an empire' in bizarre farewell message

The BBC said 42-year-old Amol Rajan, who has worked on Radio 4's Today programme since 2021, will continue to present University Challenge and the Radical With Amol Rajan podcast.

LORD BLUNKETT: We deserve direction and leadership... not two steps forward, one step back, U-turn and disillusionment

The latest volte-face by the government on the introduction of digital ID, ditching the requirement to make it mandatory by 2029 for anyone wishing to work in the UK, has left me bewildered.

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We went from £100 a month to £1MILLION in five years and retired: We weren't high earners and these were our game-changing tricks

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NADINE DORRIES: The pain of downsizing has come as a complete shock. My life is etched into the possessions I'm having to cast off for ever

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I lost 3st and still couldn't get rid of my stubborn double chin. Then I found an astonishing, permanent knife-free cure few know about... so can you guess my secret?

A candid photo taken on holiday in St Lucia in 2024 cemented the idea in my head: my double chin simply had to go.

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Exposed: What Freemasons are REALLY up to. JANE FRYER goes inside their headquaters to reveal truth about initiation ceremonies, celebrity members, bare legs and breasts... and THOSE sinister rumours

To the rest of us, the UK's 170,000 Freemasons have always seemed a bit 'other'. A bit different. Some might even say, 'a bit bloody weird'.

Love Island: All Stars opens with most explosive launch night ever as ALL TWELVE contestants kiss and Maya Jama is forced to break up 'massive clash'

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The taboo desire that Heated Rivalry has stirred in middle-aged women: I know why they're going crazy for it, says JANA HOCKING... wise husbands should heed this burning ache

It is not just about sex - although that is shown in gloriously unfiltered detail - it is also about longing. The kind which builds over years. And women have gone mad for it.

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Wes Streeting says he will be 'horrified' if under fire West Midlands Police chief is still in a job by the end of the day after he 'misled MPs and the public' over Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban

West Midlands Police chief Craig Guildford defied calls to step down and a Labour police and crime commissioner refused to remove him in the wake of a damning inquest.

Squirming teachers' union boss says he'll no longer call for pro-Palestinians to 'globalise the intifada' as he's grilled over cancellation of Jewish MP's school visit

Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said he 'certainly will not use phrases like that' while he remains in the role.

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Armed police swoop on Britain's 'prettiest street' in the Cotswolds after reports of 'gunshot' towards builders working on 'nightmare'

Armed police swooped on Britain's 'prettiest street' amid fears a gunman was on the loose after a suspected shooting at a property in the centre of a planning row. Gloucestershire Constabulary officers headed to the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bibury on Monday morning after the window of an excavator was shattered. Contractors at the development on Awkward Hill claimed they had been shot at with a rifle when they started work just after 8.15am which left them shaken up. Armed officers were sent along with sniffer dogs and drone units, but police claimed no one has confirmed any shots were heard and no projectile has been found.

Do you always get up for a wee in the night? Our expert reveals the real reason why it happens and what you can do to stop the middle-of-the-night trips for good

It's 2am, you've just woken up, and there's a niggling feeling in your bladder. It's not that you're bursting for a wee, but you also don't not need one.

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Darts commentator, 63, hits out at ITV for 'throwing me in the gutter' after 20 years of service to appoint a younger new-look line-up

Darts commentator Alan Warriner-Little claims he has been 'thrown in the gutter' by ITV after 20 years following the broadcaster's unveiling of a new line-up.

Colossal 600-year-old medieval 'super ship' discovered off the coast of Denmark is 'largest ever found'

The remains of a medieval 'super ship' have been discovered off the coast of Denmark, representing the largest of its kind ever found.

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For decades I've battled eczema on my face. I tried everything to fix it and nothing worked... until I hit on this simple formula. This is how it's changed my life - and it's surprisingly affordable

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Game-changing editing trick on The Traitors 'exposed' by Richard Osman - and it could blow another BBC twist wide open

The presenter and bestselling author, 55, spent many years in TV production before becoming an on-camera figure. Speaking on his podcast, Richard highlighted a particular contestant in the ongoing series of The Traitors.

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Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the ultimate game of deception has been captivating audiences since its 2022 debut.

Traitors host Claudia Winkleman celebrates turning 54 with Jools Holland and singer Mika as they film for Channel 4's The Piano

Claudia and Mika star on Channel 4 talent show The Piano together which sees amateur pianists playing public pianos across the UK.

Traitors icon Harriet reveals she lost 4st after going sober and says alcohol made her 'a terrible barrister' amid 34-year booze battle - despite bragging about law career during explosive exit

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Businesswoman who murdered e-bike rider after she 'hunted him' in Range Rover and mowed him down at 75mph jailed for life, min 35yrs

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Dramatic moment US forces storm oil tanker as Trump plays kingmaker in Venezuela

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Woman, 68, is stabbed to death in pretty Hampshire village as wounded man, 39, is taken to hospital and police launch murder investigation

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