Badenoch dismisses ‘threat’ from Jenrick after WhatsApp group mix-up – Sky News

Kemi Badenoch has laughed off Robert Jenrick’s WhatsApp mix-up after he appeared to accidentally add hundreds of contacts to a group chat before swiftly removing people.The chat, which included MPs and journalists, was initially called “Marathon” but then changed to “V”. Labour has seized on the incident, suggesting the shadow justice secretary was canvassing opinion on the future of the party, given he was runner-up to Ms Badenoch in last year’s Tory leadership contest.Ms Badenoch brushed off the mishap, suggesting the group was intended to promote Mr Jenrick running the London Marathon next weekend.Asked if she had been added to the WhatsApp group, she told reporters during a local election visit to Cambridgeshire: “Yes, and then no, I think is the correct answer to that. “I think he’s running a marathon. That’s what I’ve been told.”I don’t really understand yet what happened with the WhatsApp group, but it’s not the first time this week that loads of journalists and politicians have been added to a WhatsApp group. Seems to be the trend these days.” Image: Robert Jenrick was runner up in the Tory leadership contest Last month, a US reporter was accidentally included in a group chat where senior Trump
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