Robert Edward Jenrick was born on 9 January 1982 and is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Immigration since October 2022.
49 Facts About Robert Jenrick
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Robert Jenrick served as Minister of State for Health from September to October 2022.
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Robert Jenrick served as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government from 2019 to 2021.
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Robert Jenrick then studied law and qualified as a solicitor.
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Robert Jenrick was elected for Newark in a 2014 by-election following the resignation of Conservative MP Patrick Mercer after a cash for lobbying scandal.
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From 2015 to 2018, Robert Jenrick was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Employment Minister Esther McVey, Justice Secretaries Michael Gove and Liz Truss, and Home Secretary Amber Rudd.
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Robert Jenrick served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury under Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond from 2018 to 2019.
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Robert Jenrick was appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government by Boris Johnson in July 2019, a position he held until September 2021.
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Robert Jenrick returned to Government under Liz Truss in 2022 as Minister of State for Health.
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Robert Jenrick grew up in Shropshire near the town of Ludlow, as well as in Herefordshire.
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Robert Jenrick attended Wolverhampton Grammar School before reading history at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating in 2003.
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Robert Jenrick was news editor at student newspaper Varsity in 2001.
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Robert Jenrick was Thouron Fellow in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2004.
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Robert Jenrick subsequently studied law, gaining a graduate diploma in law from The College of Law in 2005 and completing a legal practice course at BPP Law School in 2006.
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Immediately prior to being elected to Parliament in 2014 Robert Jenrick was a director of Christie's, the auction house.
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In November 2013, Robert Jenrick was selected to contest the Parliamentary constituency of Newark, where the sitting member Patrick Mercer had resigned following a cash for lobbying scandal.
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Robert Jenrick became the first Conservative candidate to win a by-election in Government since William Hague in Richmond in 1989 and achieved the strongest peacetime by-election result for the Conservative Party in Government for over 40 years.
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Robert Jenrick said he was confident his election expenses had been compiled in compliance with the law.
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Shortly after his election in 2014, Robert Jenrick was elected to the Health and Social Care Select Committee.
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Robert Jenrick was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.
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Robert Jenrick was appointed Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury by Prime Minister Theresa May in her reshuffle of January 2018.
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Robert Jenrick assumed office as Communities Secretary on 24 July 2019 and became the youngest member of Johnson's cabinet.
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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign called on Johnson to sack Robert Jenrick, adding "no minister who openly advocates for law-breaking is fit to serve in Government".
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Robert Jenrick was criticised as having failed to deliver on promises and take concrete action.
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In November 2020, the Public Accounts Committee concluded that Robert Jenrick's constituency had been awarded funding by his department as part of a process that was opaque and not impartial.
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On 15 September 2021, it was announced that Robert Jenrick had been dismissed as Communities Secretary after Boris Johnson had reshuffled his cabinet, and had been succeeded by Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove.
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Robert Jenrick was accused by Anna Soubry of "selfish arrogance".
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Robert Jenrick defended the former trip, reiterating he was travelling to his family home, where his family were before any restrictions on travel were announced.
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Robert Jenrick defended the latter trip, stating his parents had asked him to deliver some essentials, including medicines, and he had not entered the house.
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Senior MPs called for Robert Jenrick to consider his position, given his high-profile role in Downing Street's campaign to keep the British public inside during the outbreak, including the ban on travelling to second homes.
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In June 2020, Robert Jenrick faced questions over his links to a Conservative donor after it emerged that he met an Israeli businessman, Idan Ofer, with an interest in the future of a multibillion-pound project that Robert Jenrick, then exchequer secretary to the Treasury, was overseeing.
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In June 2020, on the advice of a planning inspector, Robert Jenrick granted permission for the tower.
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Robert Jenrick confirmed he would be writing to Jenrick as a matter of urgency and the letter would be signed by CIOB, RICS and RTPI.
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In January 2021 Robert Jenrick declined South Lakeland MP Tim Farron's request to call in for review plans for Whitehaven coal mine, the first new deep coal mine in the UK in 30 years, after Cumbria County Council approved the plan.
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In May 2020, Robert Jenrick did not contest the judicial review, conceding that his sign-off of the scheme was "unlawful by reason of apparent bias".
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Robert Jenrick confirmed that his approval had deliberately been issued before the new CIL policy could be adopted.
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Robert Jenrick's planning permission was quashed by the High Court, which ordered that the matter was to be decided by a different minister.
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Robert Jenrick maintained that although the decision had been "unlawful by reason of apparent bias", there had been no "actual bias".
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In conceding the move did show "apparent bias", Robert Jenrick effectively blocked the judicial review, which originally prevented documents between his department and the developer from being made public.
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Robert Jenrick said he had showed Jenrick "three or four minutes" of a promotional video for the Westferry Printworks development on his mobile phone, adding "he got the gist".
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That Robert Jenrick did not disclose to his department his potential conflict of interest until a month after his dinner raised concern.
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In June 2020, Robert Jenrick was described by Baroness Deech as breaching "the guidance on planning propriety" over his management of a planning application to build a national Holocaust memorial, which she described as controversial.
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The MHCLG, Robert Jenrick's department, took control of the approval process from Westminster Council days after he met the project's main backers, including Gerald Ronson.
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In October 2022, Robert Jenrick was appointed Minister of State for Immigration, a cabinet attending role, by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
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That same month, Robert Jenrick agreed to visit the Home Office facility in Manston, Kent, after the Independent Inspector of Borders David Neal said to MPs the situation at the centre was "wretched".
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Robert Jenrick is a member of the Parliamentary Conservative Friends of Israel group.
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Robert Jenrick supports designating Albania as a safe country for the purposes of asylum claims after an increase in Albanian nationals crossing the English channel, describing the country as demonstrably safe but he described current levels of migration into the United Kingdom as unsustainable with illegal migration likely to become an issue for many years to come.
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Robert Jenrick is nine years older than Jenrick and is the child of Holocaust survivors.
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Robert Jenrick is an Israeli-born and US educated corporate lawyer who practises mainly in London.