"Reform UK's latest high profile defector - and arguably most famous, the former Conservative leadership contender and justice spokesperson Robert Jenrick - gave his new boss a shock after he missed his cue at the keynote event in London on Thursday. Jenrick was fired by Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch earlier on Thursday after he reportedly left his resignation speech 'lying around' - and Farage said that his latest recruit had only been 60-40 to join before. He thanked Badenoch for the late Christmas present, introduced Jenrick - and was left waiting for minutes on end. "He hasn't changed his mind, has he? You can't find him! Is he coming, Nick? It's been a funny, this would be a very funny end of the day, wouldn't it?" Farage joked. Jenrick finally raced to the stage - and proceeded to attack a 'Britain in decline', telling the audience: "The courts are backlogged. The prisons are overflowing. Our army is the small it's been since Napoleonic times." The anti-migration Reform UK Party currently tops the opinion polls, ahead of both the Labour governing party and the official Conservative opposition."