What on earth has happened to the once urbane, mild-mannered Robert Jenrick? There was a time when he would have been described as an identikit supporter of David Cameron, who could barely blow the skin off a political rice pudding.

In the intervening years he has transformed into a politician whose every uttering is seemingly designed to cause controversy in the area of immigration. These are not throwaway remarks, they are deliberate, and because of that they are dangerous.

During the recent Conservative leadership contest, Jenrick thought that he could metaphorically find the Conservative Party’s G spot by talking in such a way. It proved to be a catastrophic mistake and he lost by a higher than expected margin to Kemi Badenoch. She then appointed him to shadow the Justice brief, and he has spent the past three months more or less seemingly ignoring that job, and continuing in his bid to keep immigration at the top of the Tory agenda.

To be honest, after his comments over the last three days, he is lucky not only to have a job, but to still have the Conservative whip. Words have consequences and politicians have a duty to choose their words very carefully, especially when talking about........

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