Robert Jenrick Goes The Additional Mile To Honour Margaret Thatcher’s Reminiscence

Robert Jenrick took his dedication to Margaret Thatcher to a brand new degree over the weekend.

Weeks after he stunned fellow Tories by revealing on the annual Conservative convention that his daughter is known as after the ex-prime minister, the management hopeful appeared to go one step additional in an effort to honour the Iron Woman.

In keeping with a clip making the rounds on social media, Jenrick, his spouse Michal Berkner and Tory MP Andrew Rosindell bought collectively to mark what would have been Thatcher’s 99th birthday.

The Tory trio may be seen standing collectively in entrance of a Thatcher portrait holding a Union Jack cake.

A bunch of individuals behind the digicam shout out a countdown earlier than Jenrick’s spouse cuts into the dessert.

Thatcher would have been 99 on October 13.

She died 11 years in the past on the age of 87 after a stroke, however clearly continues to affect the trendy day Conservative Social gathering.

Jenrick – who’s battling it out in opposition to Kemi Badenoch within the Tory management race – had made a number of references to her in latest weeks.

He informed the social gathering trustworthy in Birmingham he needed his daughter – born in 2013, the identical yr the previous PM died – to have Thatcher as a center identify, as a result of “I believed it was a great way of reminding her of an amazing prime minister.”

Jenrick is just not the one Conservative MP to make his emotions in direction of the late PM clear, both.

His management rival, Badenoch, additionally snuck a Thatcher reference in after she confronted backlash for saying maternity pay is “extreme” earlier this month.

She stated her feedback had been taken out of context, very like the ex-PM’s now-famous declare that “there isn’t any such factor as society”.

Fellow Conservative Desmond Swayne campaigned for re-election over the summer season with a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Thatcher.

He posted pictures of himself with the enormous picture on social media, joking that he had her “superstar endorsement”.

Keir Starmer, on the hand, made headlines for doing the precise reverse in August.

Shortly after he moved into No.10, he eliminated an “unsettling” portrait of the Iron Woman from her former examine, now referred to as the Thatcher room.

After criticism from ardent Thatcher supporters, he informed the press his resolution was nothing private.

He stated: “This isn’t really about Margaret Thatcher in any respect. I don’t like pictures and footage of individuals staring down. I discovered it after I was a lawyer. I used to have form of footage of judges. I don’t prefer it. I like landscapes.”