Robert Jenrick is a British politician who served as Minister of State for Immigration from 2022 to 2023.
He previously served as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government from 2019 to 2021 and as Minister of State for Health from September to October 2022.
A member of the Conservative Party, Jenrick has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark since 2014.
He was elected for Newark in a 2014 by-election following the resignation of Conservative MP Patrick Mercer after a cash-for-lobbying scandal.
From 2015 to 2018, Jenrick was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Employment Minister Esther McVey, Justice Secretaries Michael Gove and Liz Truss, and Home Secretary Amber Rudd.
He served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury under Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond from 2018 to 2019.
Jenrick was appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government by Boris Johnson in July 2019, a position he held until September 2021. He returned to government under Liz Truss in 2022 as Minister of State for Health.
On 6 December 2023 Jenrick resigned from his position as Minister of State for Immigration over “strong disagreements” with the government’s Rwanda asylum plan, arguing that it did not go far enough to tackle illegal immigration.
Robert Jenrick age
Robert Jenrick is 41 years old as of December 2023. He was born on 9 January 1982 in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
He grew up in Shropshire near the town of Ludlow, as well as in Herefordshire. Jenrick attended Wolverhampton Grammar School before reading history at St John’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 2003.
He was news editor at student newspaper Varsity in 2001. He obtained a Thouron Award to study Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2004.
He subsequently studied law, gaining a graduate diploma in law from The College of Law in 2005 and completing a legal practice course at BPP Law School in 2006.
Jenrick qualified as a solicitor in 2008 and practised corporate law with Skadden Arps and Sullivan & Cromwell in London and Moscow.
Immediately prior to being elected to Parliament in 2014 Jenrick was a director of Christie’s, the auction house.
Robert Jenrick net worth
Robert Jenrick’s net worth is not publicly disclosed. However, some sources suggest that he is a millionaire and has a multi-million-pound property empire, with the help of his wealthy wife, Michal Berkner.
Robert Jenrick wife
Robert Jenrick’s wife is Michal Berkner, a corporate lawyer and the daughter of Holocaust survivors.
She was born in Israel, educated in the USA, and the couple are raising their three children in the Jewish faith.
She is also a partner at a law firm and has been involved in several high-profile transactions. She and Jenrick met in 2008 and married in 2009.
Robert Jenrick children
Robert Jenrick has three children from his marriage to Michal Berkner, a Jewish lawyer and corporate partner at a law firm.
Their names and specific details have not been publicly disclosed, but they are all daughters and they live in London.
Robert Jenrick family
Robert Jenrick’s family list consists of the following members:
Wife: Michal Berkner, an Israeli-born corporate lawyer and daughter of Holocaust survivors.
Children: Three daughters, whose names are not publicly disclosed.
Parents: Unknown, but Jenrick grew up in Shropshire and Herefordshire.
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