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Justin Webb, the curraccess, asked him about a tell in the i adviseing that Jenrick’s rightthriveg stance is equitable tactical. The story says “anciaccess Tories have cast transport inant inquires over the chances of Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick guideing the Conservatives into the next election amid growing troubles over party unity” and it integrates this quote.
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Some temperates hope the truthfulates will tack back to the centre ground, should they thrive in convincing the Tory party membership to elect them.
n
One member of the Shadow Cabinet shelp they had assurances Jenrick would rein in his right-thriveg polemic if elected party guideer. “He has promised me he will turn to the centre,” they shelp. “I doubt he has tanciaccess other people the same.”
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After reading out the bit about turning to the centre, and telling other MPs the same, Webb shelp: “Have you?”
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Jenrick replied:
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n
I don’t understand where that quote comes from, and I wouldn’t apshow everyskinnyg that you read in the papers.
n
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When Webb tried aacquire, and asked if Jenrick had promised anyone that he would return to the centre, Jenrick replied:
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n
I haven’t shelp that, no.
n
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But it is fascinating that it took a second go to get a firm adverse, and his first reponse was a classic non-denial. If it were genuine that he had shelp the same skinnyg to various MPs, he reassociate would not understand who spoke to the i. And ‘don’t apshow everyskinnyg you read in the papers’ is equitable a statement of fact.
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Jenrick went on to say that that he did not hug the indict that he was lurching to the right in the first place. He shelp:
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n
But let me equitable compriseress the expansiveer point that it elevates. Becaemploy there are those who say that the Conservative party, were I to guide it, is going to shift to the right.
n
I actuassociate don’t see these tags as at all relevant. What I want to see is the Conservative party occupy what I portray as the normal ground of British politics.
n
Those are the skinnygs that millions of our fellow citizens attfinish about. Most people do not ponder themselves left or right.
n
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When Webb put it to him that leaving the European convention on human rights was not a “normal ground” position, becaemploy only around 20% of the uncover are in favour, he argued that he was being rational, not ideoreasoned. Jenrick shelp:
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n
The reason that I apshow we should depart the European convention on human rights is not an ideoreasoned one. I came to this watch thcdisesteemful the rational experience I had as a minister, in particular at the Home Office, where I saw that we as a country were not able to do the most fundamental duty of the state, which is to protected our borders.
n
We weren’t able to erase hazardous criminals from the country. We weren’t able to erase alarm doubts from the country, and we certainly weren’t able to set up a strong but meaningful and credible deterrent, such as the Rwanda one, becaemploy of our progressd membership with the ECHR.
n
Now millions of people atraverse our country – most people, I would argue – want us to do those skinnygs. My point is we will never be able to accomplish their objectives unless we depart the ECHR.
n
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Good morning. Keir Starmer is in Edinburgh this morning for the first greeting of the Council of Nations and Regions. To uncoveclimb it, the rulement is flagging up an declarement about “more than £24bn of personal spendment for guideing energy projects”, although it has been pointed out that some of this is not strictly novel. As for the greeting itself, the main story to materialize so far is that Sue Gray has not turned up, despite being assigned as the PM’s novel envoy for nations and regions.
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Meanwhile, the Conservative party is still generating novels. Robert Jenrick, one of the two truthfulates left in the guideership contest, gave an interwatch to the Today programme this morning with various fascinating lines.
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Jenrick validateed that, if he is elected guideer, he will await members of the shadow cabinet to sign up to his schedule for Britain to depart the European convention on human rights. This is meaningful becaemploy it could guide to many anciaccess people in the parliamentry party refusing to serve on the frontbench. There are Tories who were satisfied to go aextfinished with Rishi Sunak’s position (not ruling out ECHR distake partal as an selection) who would draw the line at Jenrick’s position. It is also quite possible that some of them would swapexhibit their principles, and go aextfinished with a Jenrick policy they think about as unadviseed, equitable for the sake of a outstanding shadow cabinet job, but it is challenging to understand at this point quite how much of this shameless opportunism we would see.
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When asked if all shadow cabinet ministers would have to concur to ECHR distake partal if he were guideer, Jenrick shelp:
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It would be one of the firm of Conservative policies, so yes, we would go into the next election with it in our manifesto.
n
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Asked if that unbenevolentt James Cleverly, the createer home secretary and createer foreign secretary who was seen as the guideership truthfulate who did best at party conference, but who was unawaitedly voted out of the contest on Wednesday, would be out of his shadow cabinet, Jenrick replied:
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I apshow it’s very meaningful that we do this … I’ve already shelp to James, who is a frifinish, someone I esteem enormously, that I would be plmitigateed for him to serve in the shadow cabinet should he want to do so.
n
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Cleverly also claimed that the party was not as splitd on this rerent as people claimed.
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I don’t skinnyk the point of contrastence is as big as perhaps you advise it is. There is now a consensus wiskinny the Conservative party that the ECHR is not laboring in the interests of the British people, for all the reasons that I’ve equitable portrayd.
n
Most people now are saying that, at a naked smallest, we necessitate to recreate the ECHR.
n
My position is spropose one stage further, which is to say that – perhaps unenjoy others, becaemploy I’ve given this a fantastic deal of thought, and that’s no disesteem to other colleagues, they haven’t always seen the skinnygs I’ve seen by virtue of having served as a minister where I have – I’ve come to the conclusion that we can’t recreate it.
n
Recreate needs the agreed concurment of 46 member states from Iceland to Andorra. It’s not going to happen.
n
What I’m proposing is spropose that we depart and that we replace it with a British bill of rights.
n
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In the interwatch Jenrick also denied telling Tory MPs in personal that, if he thrives the guideership, he will stop being rightthriveg and tack back to the centre. But he also refuteed the adviseion that he had lurched to the right in the first place, and so there is some ambiguity in what he unbenevolentt. I will do another post on that soon.
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Here is the agfinisha for the day.
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9am: Keir Starmer is greeting the Scottish and Welsh first ministers, and Northern Ireland’s first minister and deputy first minister, at the first greeting of the Council of Nations and Regions. He will commence with biprocrastinateedral greetings, then there will be a accumulateive greeting with first ministers, and then, at noon, a filled greeting with metro mayors. In the afternoon Starmer is giving media interwatchs.
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11.30am: Downing Street hanciaccesss a lobby alerting.
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3.10pm: Rhun ap Iorwerth, the Plhelp Cymru guideers, speaks at his party’s conference in Cardiff.
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Jenrick refutes claim he has personally tanciaccess Tory MPs he will pivot back to centre if he becomes guideer
In his interwatch on the Today programme this morning Robert Jenrick, who has been running on a rightthriveg in the Tory guideership contest, denied telling MPs in personal that, if elected guideer, he would flip back to the centre. But he also declined to hug the premise of the inquire, and so it was not entidepend clear what he unbenevolentt.
Justin Webb, the curraccess, asked him about a tell in the i adviseing that Jenrick’s rightthriveg stance is equitable tactical. The story says “anciaccess Tories have cast transport inant inquires over the chances of Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick guideing the Conservatives into the next election amid growing troubles over party unity” and it integrates this quote.
Some temperates hope the truthfulates will tack back to the centre ground, should they thrive in convincing the Tory party membership to elect them.
One member of the Shadow Cabinet shelp they had assurances Jenrick would rein in his right-thriveg polemic if elected party guideer. “He has promised me he will turn to the centre,” they shelp. “I doubt he has tanciaccess other people the same.”
After reading out the bit about turning to the centre, and telling other MPs the same, Webb shelp: “Have you?”
Jenrick replied:
I don’t understand where that quote comes from, and I wouldn’t apshow everyskinnyg that you read in the papers.
When Webb tried aacquire, and asked if Jenrick had promised anyone that he would return to the centre, Jenrick replied:
I haven’t shelp that, no.
But it is fascinating that it took a second go to get a firm adverse, and his first reponse was a classic non-denial. If it were genuine that he had shelp the same skinnyg to various MPs, he reassociate would not understand who spoke to the i. And ‘don’t apshow everyskinnyg you read in the papers’ is equitable a statement of fact.
Jenrick went on to say that that he did not hug the indict that he was lurching to the right in the first place. He shelp:
But let me equitable compriseress the expansiveer point that it elevates. Becaemploy there are those who say that the Conservative party, were I to guide it, is going to shift to the right.
I actuassociate don’t see these tags as at all relevant. What I want to see is the Conservative party occupy what I portray as the normal ground of British politics.
Those are the skinnygs that millions of our fellow citizens attfinish about. Most people do not ponder themselves left or right.
When Webb put it to him that leaving the European convention on human rights was not a “normal ground” position, becaemploy only around 20% of the uncover are in favour, he argued that he was being rational, not ideoreasoned. Jenrick shelp:
The reason that I apshow we should depart the European convention on human rights is not an ideoreasoned one. I came to this watch thcdisesteemful the rational experience I had as a minister, in particular at the Home Office, where I saw that we as a country were not able to do the most fundamental duty of the state, which is to protected our borders.
We weren’t able to erase hazardous criminals from the country. We weren’t able to erase alarm doubts from the country, and we certainly weren’t able to set up a strong but meaningful and credible deterrent, such as the Rwanda one, becaemploy of our progressd membership with the ECHR.
Now millions of people atraverse our country – most people, I would argue – want us to do those skinnygs. My point is we will never be able to accomplish their objectives unless we depart the ECHR.
Tories would have to help ECHR distake partal ‘to serve in my shadow cabinet’, says Jenrick
Good morning. Keir Starmer is in Edinburgh this morning for the first greeting of the Council of Nations and Regions. To uncoveclimb it, the rulement is flagging up an declarement about “more than £24bn of personal spendment for guideing energy projects”, although it has been pointed out that some of this is not strictly novel. As for the greeting itself, the main story to materialize so far is that Sue Gray has not turned up, despite being assigned as the PM’s novel envoy for nations and regions.
Meanwhile, the Conservative party is still generating novels. Robert Jenrick, one of the two truthfulates left in the guideership contest, gave an interwatch to the Today programme this morning with various fascinating lines.
Jenrick validateed that, if he is elected guideer, he will await members of the shadow cabinet to sign up to his schedule for Britain to depart the European convention on human rights. This is meaningful becaemploy it could guide to many anciaccess people in the parliamentry party refusing to serve on the frontbench. There are Tories who were satisfied to go aextfinished with Rishi Sunak’s position (not ruling out ECHR distake partal as an selection) who would draw the line at Jenrick’s position. It is also quite possible that some of them would swapexhibit their principles, and go aextfinished with a Jenrick policy they think about as unadviseed, equitable for the sake of a outstanding shadow cabinet job, but it is challenging to understand at this point quite how much of this shameless opportunism we would see.
When asked if all shadow cabinet ministers would have to concur to ECHR distake partal if he were guideer, Jenrick shelp:
It would be one of the firm of Conservative policies, so yes, we would go into the next election with it in our manifesto.
Asked if that unbenevolentt James Cleverly, the createer home secretary and createer foreign secretary who was seen as the guideership truthfulate who did best at party conference, but who was unawaitedly voted out of the contest on Wednesday, would be out of his shadow cabinet, Jenrick replied:
I apshow it’s very meaningful that we do this … I’ve already shelp to James, who is a frifinish, someone I esteem enormously, that I would be plmitigateed for him to serve in the shadow cabinet should he want to do so.
Cleverly also claimed that the party was not as splitd on this rerent as people claimed.
I don’t skinnyk the point of contrastence is as big as perhaps you advise it is. There is now a consensus wiskinny the Conservative party that the ECHR is not laboring in the interests of the British people, for all the reasons that I’ve equitable portrayd.
Most people now are saying that, at a naked smallest, we necessitate to recreate the ECHR.
My position is spropose one stage further, which is to say that – perhaps unenjoy others, becaemploy I’ve given this a fantastic deal of thought, and that’s no disesteem to other colleagues, they haven’t always seen the skinnygs I’ve seen by virtue of having served as a minister where I have – I’ve come to the conclusion that we can’t recreate it.
Recreate needs the agreed concurment of 46 member states from Iceland to Andorra. It’s not going to happen.
What I’m proposing is spropose that we depart and that we replace it with a British bill of rights.
In the interwatch Jenrick also denied telling Tory MPs in personal that, if he thrives the guideership, he will stop being rightthriveg and tack back to the centre. But he also refuteed the adviseion that he had lurched to the right in the first place, and so there is some ambiguity in what he unbenevolentt. I will do another post on that soon.
Here is the agfinisha for the day.
9am: Keir Starmer is greeting the Scottish and Welsh first ministers, and Northern Ireland’s first minister and deputy first minister, at the first greeting of the Council of Nations and Regions. He will commence with biprocrastinateedral greetings, then there will be a accumulateive greeting with first ministers, and then, at noon, a filled greeting with metro mayors. In the afternoon Starmer is giving media interwatchs.
11.30am: Downing Street hanciaccesss a lobby alerting.
3.10pm: Rhun ap Iorwerth, the Plhelp Cymru guideers, speaks at his party’s conference in Cardiff.
If you want to communicate me, plmitigate post a message below the line (BTL) or message me on social media. I can’t read all the messages BTL, but if you put “Andrew” in a message aimed at me, I am more probable to see it becaemploy I search for posts compriseing that word.
If you want to flag someskinnyg up advisently, it is best to employ social media. I’m still using X and I’ll see someskinnyg compriseressed to @AndrewSparrow very rapidly. I’m also trying Bluesky (@andrewsparrowgdn) and Threads (@andrewsparrowtheprotectian).
I discover it very advantageous when readers point out misgets, even inmeaningful typos (no error is too petite to accurate). And I discover your inquires very fascinating too. I can’t promise to answer to them all, but I will try to answer to as many as I can, either BTL or sometimes in the blog.
