Interview: Robert Jenrick

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today, Newscast hears from Robert Jenrick who has made it into the final of the Conservative leadership race.

Robert speaks to Adam and Chris about his early life and why he became a Conservative, his time in government and why he thinks he’s the person to lead the Conservative party. He shares his diagnosis of why the Conservatives did so badly in the general election - and how he plans to turn the party around if he wins.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, this is a bonus episode of newscast because Chris and I have had a visitor to the
0:09.7	newscast studio and it is one of the final two candidates in the Conservative Party leadership
0:15.3	contest.
0:16.3	It's Robert Genrick and it was an interesting conversation so we thought we would bring you
0:19.7	it in full in this bonus episode of Newscast.
0:22.6	Newscast.
0:23.6	Newscast.
0:26.6	Newscast from the BBC.
0:27.0	Robert Janrick, hello.
0:31.6	Hello, very nice to be here. You know who was sat in that seat recently?
0:35.2	Kere Starmer.
0:37.6	So yeah, we could maybe have two Prime Ministers in a row sitting in that seat depending on how things go for your party.
0:42.3	Anyway, right, we've got loads to talk about and we've got plenty of time and it's a podcast so we can just have a chat
0:46.3	rather than it being like pop pop pop pop pop pop what was your earliest political memory?
0:54.0	Ah, good question. It's like the psychiatrist, it's a bit like that, doesn't it?
0:58.0	I do remember sitting up watching the 1992 general election results with my mom and dad when I was I was 10 I think
1:07.2	Wow at that point so I do remember watching that and what's your actual memory of that can you you picture yourself like in the living room?
1:13.0	I can picture myself on the sofa at home watching that and we watched the exit poll and then obviously stayed up a bit later and later and later and it all started to change over the course of the night although my dad was a
1:24.4	labor voter I think my mom had voted conservative but my dad was a labor
1:27.8	voter so there were mixed emotions yeah what was the vibe on the sofa like
1:32.1	yeah and this was not a true blue house Yeah, what was the vibe on the sofa like that?
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