Robert Jenrick defends ‘didn’t see another white face’ comment

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Robert Jenrik, Minister of Justice in the shadow, defended that he had not seen “another white face” on a visit to the Birmingham region, as he was preparing to deliver a major speech to the conservative conference.

Genrik, who is widely seen as a potential competitor to Kimi Padnouch to lead conservatives, has argued that he was “honest and honest” about the challenges of integration.

On Tuesday, he criticized his statements earlier this year about the Handsworth, which he said was “closest to a poor” in the United Kingdom.

In the comments held during a speech at a dinner party in the Conservative Party in March, Genrik also described the region as one of the worst integrated places “he visited. He had visited Handsworth to make a social media clip on garbage.

Recording for the comments was published by the Guardian. “This is not the type of country in which I want to live. I want to live in a country where people are integrated properly,” Genrik added.

BBC told BBC that she shared Genrik’s view that cities like Birmingham needed to be better, adding: “We have had a lot of successful integration in this country, but this changes.”

But she also said: “The correct measure of integration is that people do not care about what people seem to be.

Jenrik said that his full comments on dinner included that his point of view was not about “skin tone or your faith” and was an invitation to better integration in the United Kingdom.

“Six separate government reports for 20 years have highlighted the problem of parallel societies and called for an explicit and honest conversation on this issue,” Genrik said in a statement.

“It is frankly, Robert is wrong.” He told BBC’s Newsnight: “Handsworth, I have come a long run over forty years since the last civil disorders there is in fact a very integrated place.”

The Conservative Party members look at Jenrik, who lost the leadership of Padnouch last year, as an active activist, where videos on viral social media and her solid views on issues such as immigration are made as an applicable candidate to fight Nigel Farage’s reform in the United Kingdom.

In a dominant event in Manchester on Monday, he insisted that he believed that Badnosh would challenge the possibilities of betting and lead the conservatives to the upcoming general elections, but he said that the party needs “change, change and change.”

His vision of the party and what it had to do differently to operate his flowing support was to a reception from the believers from the Conservative Party in an event organized by the spectator.

On Monday, a poll in Yougov showed that half of the Conservative Party members believed that Badnosh should not lead the conservatives to the upcoming elections. Genrik is the favorite of members to replace it, with the support of 37 percent, before former Prime Minister Boris Johnson by 22 percent and the Minister of Housing in the shadow, James, by 20 percent.

Jenrik, who was her Jewish wife, directed an applause in the marginal event because he believed that he was a “ridiculous shame” that might be protests in support of the Palestinians-which was called “hate marches”-on the campus of the university on October 7, and the second anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.

The protests against Israel’s behavior in the resulting war, which led to famine and turned areas of Gaza into a barren land, which are regular events in the United Kingdom, but faced criticism of anti -Semitism incidents.

Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer argued on the Times on Monday that students should avoid protests on Tuesday, describing them as “non -British” and warned that “for a long time, our country was indifferent to the insecurity.”

The party’s competitors do not expect Jenrik to make an immediate step to challenge the leadership of Badenosh, but he spoke frankly about his position as the candidate who replaces it unless you can improve their wealth quickly.

“There is an atmosphere of open sedition,” said one of the former ministers in the Council of Ministers.

Most of them see the moment of the crisis for Badenoch as Scottish, Wallisical and local elections in the next May, where opinion polls indicate that the party is facing great losses.

Tuesday is the moment of Jenrik in the main stage of the conference, as it is scheduled to announce that the conservatives will cancel the UK Governing Council if they regain power.

This step is in response to a right -wing popular opinion that minorities sometimes receive a lighter penalty, which led them to Dub Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, “Kiir Bilateral”. The government has opposed this.

“We are sliding into a nightmare from two levels under Care Starmer,” is expected to say Jenrik. “The Board of issuing the rulings is inappropriate. The British people can no longer face the possibility of two -level justice.”