Hosting a family, fines, and frontline reporting
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Robert Jenrick, former Housing Secretary, joins Christopher Hope as Easter in the Jenrick household will have a few more guests this year. The MP for Newark has a Ukrainian family staying with his own, thought to be the first MP to take in refugees under the new Home Office scheme.
He tells Chris that red tape has "tested the patience" of those trying to be hosts, and he insists that despite the Prime Minister being sanctioned for gatherings during lockdowns, the idea that he should resign is "for the birds".
Also on the podcast: Martin Baxter, founder of pollster Electoral Calculus, reveals how the public is responding to partgate fines, and gives us a glimpse into his local elections crystal ball.
Plus the Telegraph's own Danielle Sheridan on swapping reporting on the corridors of power for the frontline, and the stories of hope she finds in a country at war.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on choppers politics. |
| 0:04.0 | The idea that now would be a sensible time in which to contemplate changing Prime Minister, |
| 0:10.0 | although that would be in the national interest, it seems to me |
| 0:14.0 | would be for the birds. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello and welcome to Chopper's Politics. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor for Politics. |
| 0:25.0 | Well, there's never been a hangover like it. |
| 0:28.0 | After nine minutes in a room in Downing Street with a birthday cake kept in a Tupperware box. Boris Johnson has been left |
| 0:35.2 | some months later with a 50 pound fine and a criminal sanction from the Met Police |
| 0:41.2 | which is unprecedented for a sitting Prime Minister, and there may well |
| 0:46.3 | be more to come. |
| 0:48.3 | Yes, this week the beginning of the end of the party gate scandal started. Do keep up at the back. But where |
| 0:57.1 | will it leave the Prime Minister? More on that later. But first across across the country, thousands of British families are trying to |
| 1:06.0 | take in Ukrainian refugees with varying success. But one family which has managed to take in Ukrainians into their home this week are the generics. |
| 1:19.0 | And joining me now is one of their number, Robert Genrich, who happens to be the MP for Newark. |
| 1:25.0 | Robert Genrick, former Secretary of Housing Communities Local Government, of course |
| 1:30.0 | MP for Newark. Thank you for joining us today on Shop of Politics. |
| 1:33.3 | Great to have you on. |
| 1:34.3 | Good to be back, Chris. We're talking down the line, of course, because |
| 1:37.6 | apartments in recess, but you've been very busy, haven't you? |
| 1:40.3 | Well, yes, my family have just taken in a Ukrainian refugee family and we drove to |
| 1:47.4 | Stanford in the middle of the night on Monday to pick them up and welcome |
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