Jenrick reveals daughter’s middle name is Thatcher

It’s the second day of the big Tory leadership interviews at party conference and Robert Jenrick is on the main stage. Making his case for why he should be elected leader of the Conservative party, the former minister slammed the state of the Home Office as being ‘in ashes’, promised he would ‘re-enact’ a version of the Rwanda scheme if he were to become Prime Minister and said he ‘would like’ to cut the top rate of tax. How interesting…

But it wasn’t just domestic policy that the Tory leadership contender discussed this afternoon. In a rather, er, amusing announcement, Jenrick revealed that his daughter’s middle name is ‘Thatcher’ – in a touching tribute to the former PM. Talk about commitment to the cause, eh?

Speaking to GB News’s Christopher Hope, Jenrick was first quizzed on how his family would handle him securing the top job. ‘I’ve got three young girls,’ Jenrick told the crowd, ‘and they’ve all been reading the papers, watching the news.