At a by-election held on 5 June 2014, he retained the seat with a reduced majority of 7,403. In November 2013, Jenrick was selected to contest the Parliamentary constituency of Newark, where the sitting member Patrick Mercer had resigned following a cash for lobbying scandal. Īt the general election of 2010, Jenrick contested Newcastle-under-Lyme for the Conservative Party, but lost to Paul Farrelly of the Labour Party by 1,582 votes, despite one of the largest swings to the Conservatives at 9.4%. Immediately prior to being elected to Parliament in 2014 Jenrick was a director of Christie's, the auction house. Jenrick qualified as a solicitor in 2008 and practised corporate law with Skadden Arps and Sullivan & Cromwell in London and Moscow. 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. He was Thouron Fellow in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2004.
He was news editor at student newspaper Varsity in 2001. Jenrick attended Wolverhampton Grammar School before reading history at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating in 2003. He grew up in Shropshire near the town of Ludlow, as well as in Herefordshire.
Jenrick was born in Wolverhampton in 1982. He returned to Government under Liz Truss in 2022 as Minister of State for Health. Jenrick was appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government by Boris Johnson in July 2019, a position he held until September 2021. He served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury under Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond from 2018 to 2019. He was elected for Newark in a 2014 by-election following the resignation of Conservative MP Patrick Mercer after a cash-for-lobbying scandal.įrom 2015 to 2018, Jenrick was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Employment Minister Esther McVey, Justice Secretaries Michael Gove and Liz Truss, and Home Secretary Amber Rudd. He then studied law and qualified as a solicitor. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark since 2014.īorn in Wolverhampton, Jenrick attended St John's College, Cambridge, where he read history, followed by the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government from 2019 to 2021. He served as Minister of State for Health from September to October 2022. The Hill has reached out to the Richardson Independent School District for comment.įor the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill.Robert Edward Jenrick (born 9 January 1982) is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Immigration since October 2022. Uvalde is located more than 300 miles southwest of Richardson. The development comes as the nation is still reeling after the deadly Uvalde, Texas, shooting that took place on Tuesday. Police did not release the name of the suspect but said he had been arrested and charged with unlawfully carrying weapons in a weapon-free school zone.įor close to an hour, Berkner High School was placed on lockdown until police gave the all-clear, according to a spokesperson from Richardson Independent School District, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Inside the vehicle, officers observed what appeared to be an AK-47 style pistol and a replica AR-15 style Orbeez rifle.” “Further investigation led to the discovery of a vehicle used by the suspect in the parking lot of 1551 East Spring Valley Road. The suspect was located inside Berkner High School, but no weapons were found,” police said. “Based on the information provided and in collaboration with Richardson ISD, officers were able to identify the male suspect as a juvenile student of Berkner High School. local time reporting a male who looked like he was holding a rifle and had last been seen walking toward the school. Police in Richardson, Texas, located roughly 15 miles northeast of Dallas, said in a Facebook post they launched a search at Berkner High School following a call just before 11 a.m. Texas police reported on Wednesday that a high school student had been arrested after having what appeared to be a pistol and rifle in his vehicle just one day after an elementary school in the state became the scene of a mass shooting that left 19 children and two adults dead.
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