Robert Jenrick, The Telegraph Journalist Profile

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Farage is wrong about the two-child benefit cap. We must keep it

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Robert Jenrick

Spiralling welfare spending is bankrupting Britain. By the end of the decade it’s forecast to reach £378 billion. We face a reckoning unless we do something radical. But the conversation in Westminster is untethered from reality. Instead of debating how to bring the welfare bill down, and move hundreds of thousands of people off welfare into the dignity of work, the question is whether we should add to that bill by scrapping the two-child benefits cap. Until now Starmer has upheld it.
Farage is wrong about the two-child benefit cap. We must keep it

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Robert Jenrick

Spiralling welfare spending is bankrupting Britain. By the end of the decade it’s forecast to reach £378 billion. We face a reckoning unless we do something radical. But the conversation in Westminster is untethered from reality. Instead of debating how to bring the welfare bill down, and move hundreds of thousands of people off welfare into the dignity of work, the question is whether we should add to that bill by scrapping the two-child benefits cap. Until now Starmer has upheld it.
Farage is wrong about the two-child benefit cap. We must keep it

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Robert Jenrick
This shameful plan to cut prison sentences must not pass

2 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Robert Jenrick

As the 9/11 terrorist attack unfolded a Labour aide sent a memo around Government suggesting that it was a “good day to get out anything we want to bury”. “Councillors expenses?”, she suggested. The Blairites are back in charge and channelling the same approach to Government communications.
This shameful plan to cut prison sentences must not pass

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Robert Jenrick
Selling out loyal Gibraltar could be Starmer’s next great betrayal

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Robert Jenrick

On a flight back from a summit in February 2002, Tony Blair turned to Labour’s then Europe minister, Peter Hain, and remarked we should “remove” Gibraltar as “an obstacle to relations with the EU”. He was “insistent” on making a deal and “contemptuous of Gibraltarian attitudes”. In his memoirs, Hain wrote Gibraltar was “a little bit of England trying, eccentrically, to cling on to Spain”.
Selling out loyal Gibraltar could be Starmer's next great betrayal

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Robert Jenrick
The facts are in: mass immigration has led to a rise in crime

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Robert Jenrick

For years we have had an institutional cover-up of the costs of immigration. The amount of serious and violent crime we have imported from low-skilled migration has been swept under the carpet. From what I can only deduce is out of misplaced fear of harming social cohesion if the truth were to emerge, the public have had the wool pulled over their eyes. Officials have hidden behind the excuse of “operational challenges” and “disproportionate cost”. But the dam is now breaking.
mass immigration has led to a rise in crime

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Robert Jenrick
Never forget these obvious reasons to be proud of being English, we must always prize our heritage - Robert Jenrick

1 month ago | gbnews.com | Robert Jenrick

Most people in the United Kingdom are rightly proud to be British. But almost all people in Britain have an additional national identity too. Most Scots are unashamedly proud to be both British and Scottish. The same is true of the Welsh. These are identities that predate our Britishness but also strengthen it. The same should be true of the English. I am deeply proud to be both English and British. My upbringing was in provincial England and being English is important to me. It is my home.