Tory Reform Group declines to endorse either leadership candidate amid fears lurch to the right could split party
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The main Conservative centrist group will not endorse Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick in the Tory leadership race amid concern the party risks splitting in a lurch to the right.
In a strongly worded statement, the Tory Reform Group (TRG), seen as the main forum for one-nation Conservatives, condemned Badenoch and Jenrick for having “used rhetoric and focused on issues which are far and away from the party at its best”.
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