Robert Jenrick
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Robert Jenrick MP |
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| Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor | |
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Assumed office 23 June 2015 |
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David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Stephen Metcalfe |
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Member of Parliament for Newark |
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Assumed office 5 June 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Patrick Mercer |
| Majority | 18,474 (35.3%) |
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| Born | 9 January 1982 |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Michal Jenrick |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Website | www.robertjenrick.com |
Robert Edward Jenrick (born 9 January 1982) is an English Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark since 2014.
Jenrick attended Wolverhampton Grammar School before reading History at St John's College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in 2003. He was Thouron Fellow in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania from 2003–2004. He subsequently studied law, gaining a graduate diploma in law from The College of Law in 2005 and completing a legal practice course at BPP Law School in 2006.
Jenrick qualified as a solicitor in 2008 and practised business law with the leading international law firms, Skadden Arps and Sullivan & Cromwell in London and Moscow, before pursuing a management career. Immediately prior to being elected to parliament in 2014 Jenrick was a Director of Christie's, the art business where he held a series of senior commercial roles, lastly as an International managing director, managing a division of the company.
At the general election of 2010, he contested Newcastle-under-Lyme for the Conservative Party, achieving one of the largest swings to the Conservatives in the UK, adding 9.4 per cent to the party's vote, but falling short of incumbent, Paul Farrelly of the Labour Party by 1,582 votes.
In November 2013, Jenrick was selected as his party's prospective parliamentary candidate for the Conservative stronghold of Newark, where the sitting Conservative member had left the party. At a by-election held on 5 June 2014, he regained the seat for the Conservatives with a majority of 7,403. Jenrick became the first Conservative candidate to win a by-election in Government since the election of William Hague in the Richmond by-election in 1989 and achieved the strongest peacetime by-election result for the Conservative Party in government for over 40 years.
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