Robert Jenrick - "I Joined Reform To Save The Country"

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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0:00.0	The political economy of the last 20, 35 years is broken.
0:08.0	A lot of people in reform have seen more and more conservatives defect and going,
0:14.0	hang on a minute, aren't we just creating the Conservative Party 2.0? This is not what we want.
0:19.0	The country's in a real mess. Wages have stagnated for 20 years.
0:23.6	You've got 93% of crimes go unresolved.
0:27.6	Our armed forces are smaller size.
0:29.6	They've been since Napoleonic times.
0:31.6	You can't get people on the housing ladder now.
0:34.6	Issue after issue after issue, things are very bad.
0:38.5	What is going to be your role in the strong team?
0:41.3	Well, I don't know.
0:42.3	I...
0:43.3	Oh, come on.
0:44.3	Come on.
0:45.3	What, you're telling you left the Conservative Party with no promise of a job, what really, come on.
0:51.3	So it's going to be people watching and listening to this going, hang on a minute, mate.
0:56.0	You were part of the Conservative government when a lot of these disastrous policies were implemented.
1:02.0	Fess up, you need to take some responsibility for it as well.
1:05.0	Well, I do.
1:07.0	I don't say this lightly.
1:08.0	Last summer, Constantine and I spent a week with Ralston College students and professors in Greece,
1:14.3	and it's genuinely something that needs to be seen to be believed. I couldn't recommend it more highly.
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