Jenrick says Tories need to make Farage’s Reform ‘redundant’
Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick said he wants to put Nigel Farage’s Reform UK “out of business”.
He acknowledged the Conservatives have a mountain to climb following the party’s worst election result in history and said winning back voters from Reform will be a key challenge.
The former immigration minister said he wants to make Reform “redundant” by persuading its supporters he can address their concerns on the number of people coming to the UK.
“I know how damaged the party’s brand is, how difficult the present situation is for our party, but I want to begin the long road of turning that around,” Mr Jenrick told ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
“I acknowledge we have a mountain to climb, but the way to do that, I think, is to defend the good things we did in government, like on the economy – a decade of high employment – reforming our schools so our children are now amongst the most literate, but being honest about the mistakes that we made.”
Deal
He rejected the idea of a deal with Mr Farage.
“I don’t think Nigel Farage wants to join the Conservative Party. I don’t think that he needs to. I want to put Reform out of business. I want to make them redundant, because I want to have clear policies on legal and illegal migration.”
He added: “What we need to do as a party is bring back those voters that we lost, the millions of voters we lost to Reform in the last election.
“And you do that by having a leader that has credibility on the issues that are of concern to Reform voters, and by adopting very clear positions, as I have done, not just in this leadership election, but for many months.”
Mr Jenrick also said his weight loss is partly due to the Ozempic drug prescribed by his GP but is more down to exercise and diet.
“I was overweight, I did try Ozempic for a period of time, it didn’t really suit me.
“It worked for a period of time but – guess what? – the easiest way to lose weight in the long term is to eat less and do some more exercise.”
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They need to get more racist then?
Got it.
Jenrick is just a dick, no more no less. How he thinks he’s leadership material is beyond me. There again he’s pandering to the base instincts of some members but are they the majority ?
2019 Johnson sacked the capable Tories. We are left with the dregs. There isn’t one of them that should ever have made it past the back benches.
Good luck with that, at the moment reform make the torys look like inmates from an asylum.
Robert ‘no cartoons for kids, down with immigrants’ Jenrick versus Nigel ‘no Muslims here, down with immigrants’ Farage. The heavyweight championship of the world featuring two losers. The bookies have walked away.
The devil’s advocate, no really!…what did he learn as a lawyer in Moscow…how to be a fixer for dodgy billionaires…!
Get the swastikas out, then.
‘I want to put Reform out of business. I want to make them redundant …’
Jenrick’s problem here is that the fate of the Farage brigade is in no way up to him. It’s up to the voters, and if voters who tend to back the right turn out to prefer the Farageists over his Tories, he and his ilk with have to either like it or lump it.
Nothing really that they can do about that.