Top Tory Slams Robert Jenrick For Saying Part Of His City Is A 'Slum' With 'No White Faces'

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68e4a94314000018f55c708b.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Robert Jenrick, UK shadow justice secretary, on the opening day of the UK Conservative Party conference in Manchester." data-caption="Robert Jenrick, UK shadow justice secretary, on the opening day of the UK Conservative Party conference in Manchester." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Bloomberg via Bloomberg via Getty Images" />Robert Jenrick, UK shadow justice secretary, on the opening day of the UK Conservative Party conference in Manchester.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>A senior <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/conservative-party/">Tory </a>has hit back at <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/robert-jenrick/">Robert Jenrick</a> after he said part of his city was a “slum” where he “didn’t see another white face”.</p><p>The shadow justice secretary was recorded making the remarks at a Conservative Association dinner in March.</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/06/robert-jenrick-complained-of-not-seeing-another-white-face-in-handsworth-birmingham" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Guardian</a>, he said: “I went to Handsworth in Birmingham the other day to do a video on litter and it was absolutely appalling. It’s as close as I’ve come to a slum in this country.</p><p>“But the other thing I noticed there was that it was one of the worst integrated places I’ve ever been to. In fact, in the hour and a half I was filming news there I didn’t see another white face.”</p><p>On BBC’s <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/newsnight/">Newsnight </a>programme on Monday, Jenrick was condemned by <a href="http