Conservative Leadership Profile: Robert Jenrick
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This is a bonus episode profiling one of the final two candidates in the Conservative leadership election, Robert Jenrick.
Adam and Alex speak to Mark Spencer, former MP for Sherwood who has known Robert Jenrick since 2014 and as MPs for neighbouring constituencies. They discuss how Robert Jenrick became an MP after defeating UKIP in the 2014 Newark by-election, how he became the ‘first millennial cabinet minister’ under Boris Johnson and how he’s rebranded for this leadership contest.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, we're bringing you bonus episodes where we profile the final two contenders |
| 0:09.8 | in the Conservative Leadership Contest. |
| 0:12.0 | We've enlisted our friend Alex Resythe to help and |
| 0:14.8 | we've found some people who know the candidates pretty well. This episode is all about |
| 0:19.5 | Robert Genrich. You can find our episode about Kimmy Badenock in the newscast feed. |
| 0:25.0 | Now you might already know that Robert was an immigration minister under Rishi Sunak and he |
| 0:29.5 | sensationally, to use the tabloidy word, resigned over the government's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda |
| 0:36.4 | But you may not know that he supported remain in the 2016 referendum on our EU membership. |
| 0:43.0 | He is no stranger to a pair of welly boots. |
| 0:46.0 | And he had a glow up when rumors of a leadership contest started building |
| 0:51.0 | before the general election. We will cover all of that and much |
| 0:54.9 | much much more on this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:58.1 | Newscast. |
| 0:59.1 | Newscast. |
| 1:00.1 | Newscast from the BBC. Well, let's chat now with BBC political correspondent and very good friend of the |
| 1:10.4 | podcasting family, Alex Wasaith. |
| 1:11.8 | Hello. And we're also joined by Mark Spencer who of the |
| 1:15.0 | friend of the podcasting family, Alex Versailles. Hello. And we're also joined by Mark Spencer, who until the election was the Conservative MP for Sherwood, which is next door to Robert Genrick's constituency. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello Mark. |
| 1:21.0 | Hi, how are you? |
| 1:22.0 | Very well, thank you. |
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