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Robert Jenrick: Genuine PM potential or ...

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'Some of his views are pretty extreme... I found it pretty sinister'


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Harry Lambert, contributing writer to the New Statesman, talks to Anoosh Chakelian and Will Lloyd about his cover story profiling the Conservative MP and leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick.


Can he really become PM, why is he so popular online and how did his politics get so radicalised?



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