Tory leadership live: Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch await leadership election results

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Robert Jenrick has reinvented himself as a right-wing member of the Conservative Party, starting his political journey as a more centrist figure and as a close ally of former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

In December 2023 he resigned as Minister of Immigration, saying Sunak’s emergency legislation in Rwanda did not go far enough.

And he has since been outspoken about what he sees as his party’s failure to deliver on its promises to cut immigration while it was in power.

In particular, he led calls for Great Britain is leaving from the European Convention on Human Rights.

This helped him win support from MPs previously loyal to his former boss at the Home Office, Suella Braverman, who ruled herself out of the leadership contest before it even began.

The 42-year-old father of three was a corporate lawyer and director of auction house Christie’s before entering politics as MP for Newark in 2014.

His Tory leader presentation is that the party needs to confront the hard truth, arguing that only he can make the changes needed to win the next election.

In 2020, he was embroiled in controversy over his decision as Housing Minister to provide planning permission for a residential development in east London related to donor Tori. In 2023, he made headlines again by commissioning murals of cartoon characters at a reception center for asylum-seeking children in Dover. be painted over.