Robert Jenrick

**Robert Edward Jenrick** (born 9 January 1982) is a British politician who served as the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor from 2024 to 2026. He was the Minister of State for Immigration from 2022 to 2023. He was Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government from 2019 to 2021 and Minister of State for Health from September to October 2022. Jenrick has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark since the 2014 by-election.

On 25 July 2024, Jenrick announced he was running in the 2024 leadership election to be the new Conservative Party leader and Leader of the Opposition. After several rounds of voting, Jenrick advanced to the final round, running against Kemi Badenoch. In the Member's vote, Badenoch defeated Jenrick with 56.5% of the vote on 31 October 2024. A few days later, he was appointed to Badenoch's shadow cabinet as the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor.

On 15 January 2026, Jenrick was removed from the shadow cabinet and suspended from the Conservative Party following allegations that he had been secretly getting ready to join Reform UK. He joined Reform UK later that day.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: Robert Jenrick
- **image**: Official_portrait_of_Robert_Jenrick_MP_crop_2,_2024.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2024
- **office**: Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
Shadow Lord Chancellor
- **leader**: Kemi Badenoch
- **term start**: 4 November 2024
- **term end**: 15 January 2026
- **predecessor**: Edward Argar
- **office1**: Minister of State for Immigration
- **primeminister1**: Rishi Sunak
- **term start1**: 25 October 2022
- **term end1**: 6 December 2023
- **predecessor1**: Tom Pursglove
- **successor1**: Michael Tomlinson (Countering Illegal Migration)
Tom Pursglove (Legal Migration and the Border)
- **office2**: Minister of State for Social Care (UK), Minister of State for Health
- **term start2**: 7 September 2022
- **term end2**: 25 October 2022
- **primeminister2**: Liz Truss
- **predecessor2**: Gillian Keegan
- **successor2**: Helen Whately
- **office3**: Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
- **term start3**: 24 July 2019
- **term end3**: 15 September 2021
- **predecessor3**: James Brokenshire
- **successor3**: Michael Gove
- **office4**: Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
- **predecessor4**: Andrew Jones (British politician), Andrew Jones
- **primeminister3**: Boris Johnson
- **term start4**: 9 January 2018
- **term end4**: 24 July 2019
- **office5**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
 for Newark (UK Parliament constituency), Newark
- **predecessor5**: Patrick Mercer
- **successor4**: Simon Clarke (politician), Simon Clarke
- **primeminister4**: Theresa May
- **term start5**: 5 June 2014
- **majority5**: 3,572 (6.7%)
- **birth name**: Robert Edward Jenrick
- **birth place**: Wolverhampton, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England
- **otherparty**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative (1997–2026)
- **children**: 3
- **party**: Reform UK (since 2026)
- **education**: Wolverhampton Grammar School
- **alma mater**: St John's College, Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts, BA)
 University of Pennsylvania (Master of Arts, MA)
University of Law, The College of Law (Graduate Diploma in Law, GDL)
BPP University (Legal Practice Course, LPC)
- **successor**: Nick Timothy