The Trumpification of Robert Jenrick – ideological convert or extreme opportunist?

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Ten years ago, Robert Jenrick was a bland centrist solicitor, exactly the sort of safe candidate who the Conservative Party didn’t have to worry about. So how did he become such a controversialist? Political editor David Maddox tracks his journey to see if he really is an ideological convert or just an extreme opportunist

f one politician represents the Trumpification of British politics, then it is not Nigel Farage but an MP who has experienced the most dramatic conversion.

The Trumpification of Robert Jenrick – ideological convert or extreme opportunist?

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