Robert Jenrick's Reform defection and the Greenland rift

You can watch this episode of Planet Normal on YouTube: The rocket of right thinking is back with a blast and a very special defector is aboard. Robert Jenrick is strapped in to tell our intrepid co-pilots why he has joined Reform UK and why he thinks the Conservatives didn’t deserve ‘a second chance’. Your co-pilots return to the cockpit to navigate a world that has grown increasingly volatile in just the first few weeks of 2026. They discuss whether this is a ‘survival of the wettest’ moment for Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party and if Robert Jenrick is the ‘first olive out of the jar’ that will lead to a cascade of further defections. Alison returns from her time in the Australian Outback. She shares her reflections on why Australia feels like a ‘livable, optimistic society’ compared to the UK As Donald Trump takes the stage at Davos, the world is reeling from his demand that the US should run Greenland. Liam breaks down the ‘method in the madness’, explaining the critical importance of Greenland’s rare earth minerals for the global semiconductor industry and the strategic value of the melting Northwest Passage. Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor | Read Allison ‘Forget just under-16s, we all desperately need a social media ban’ | Read Allison ‘If the Tories can’t admit Britain is broken, they really are finished’: | Read more from Allison: | Read Liam ‘The war on the horizon that global economies haven’t priced in’: | Read more from Liam: | Read Liam’s Substack: | Need help subscribing or reviewing? Learn more about podcasts here: | Email: planetnormal@telegraph.co.uk | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: | Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Robert Jenrick's Reform defection and the Greenland rift is an episode from Planet Normal by Louisa Wells.

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This episode was published on Jan 22, 2026.

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