Robert Jenrick reveals his daughter's middle name is Thatcher

Robert Jenrick revealed that he'd fixed his daughter, calved successful 2013, the mediate sanction Thatcher to 'remind her of a large Prime Minister' arsenic contenders grapple to amusement who loves her most

Under-fire Tory enactment contender Robert Jenrick has revealed helium gave his girl the mediate sanction 'Thatcher'.

The hardliner, who is battling to win Rishi Sunak, got a hearty circular of applause arsenic helium made the revelation. He told an assemblage astatine the Conservative Party Conference successful Birmingham that helium wanted to "remind her of a large Prime Minister". He said his girl was calved successful 2013 - the twelvemonth the Iron Lady died.

It comes aft his rival Kemi Badenoch compared herself to Mrs Thatcher arsenic the existent flock of MPs conflict implicit her legacy. Addressing the enactment faithful connected Monday, Ms Badenoch - who has travel nether occurrence implicit remarks astir maternity wage - compared herself to the erstwhile Tory PM, who is often quoted arsenic saying: “There is nary specified happening arsenic society.”

Ms Badenoch said this punctuation had travel from an interrogation Mrs Thatcher had done with Women’s Own mag wherever a “very bully mentation got chopped down into a soundbite that was utilized to onslaught her”.

She continued: “When you are a leader, erstwhile you are a Conservative, erstwhile you are making the statement for Conservative principles, your opponents are going to effort and crook it into thing else. We request to determine who's going to beryllium person of the party, not the left, not the Guardian, not the BBC, conscionable Conservatives.”

Mr Jenrick faces caller fury implicit his assertion that UK peculiar forces are "killing alternatively than capturing terrorists" successful a video that has been branded "nasty propaganda".

The Tory enactment hopeful was incapable to accidental whether helium knows that UK peculiar forces are doing truthful aft helium said it successful a promotional video attacking the European Convention connected Human Rights (ECHR) for his campaign. He was tied successful knots successful a vigor interrogation connected Tuesday, a time aft helium posted a video saying wherefore helium thinks the UK should permission the ECHR. In it, helium said: "Our peculiar forces are sidesplitting alternatively than capturing terrorists due to the fact that our lawyers archer america if they're caught the European Court volition acceptable them free."