Conservative leadership live: Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch await the results of the leadership election

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Robert Jenrick has reinvented himself as a right-wing Conservative after starting his political journey as a more centrist figure – as well as a close ally of former prime minister Rishi Sunak.

In December 2023, he resigned as immigration minister, saying that Sunak’s emergency legislation in Rwanda did not go far enough.

And he has since been outspoken about what he sees as his party’s failure to deliver on promises to reduce immigration when in power.

In particular, he led calls for Great Britain to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.

This helped him attract support from MPs loyal to his former Home Office boss, Suella Braverman, who dropped out of the leadership contest before it began.

The 42-year-old father-of-three was a corporate lawyer – and a director of auction house Christie’s – before entering politics as MP for Newark in 2014.

His Present for conservative leadership is that the party must face hard truths – arguing that only it can make the changes needed to win the next election.

In 2020, he was embroiled in controversy over his decision to grant housing secretary agreements planning permission for a housing development in East London related to a conservative donor. In 2023, he made headlines again for commissioning murals of cartoon characters at a reception center for asylum-seeking children in Dover. be painted over.