Behind The Scenes Of Becoming PM
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 1:23.0 | In the past half century, more people have walked on the moon than across the threshold of number ten as a new Prime Minister. |
| 1:30.0 | And now we get another new PM to take that one small step having triumphed in the not very edifying contest to replace Boris Johnson. |
| 1:39.0 | They'll have barely 24 hours to move into Downish Street. The process is daunting, brutal, emotional, exhausting, decisions, mistakes made in the first few hours can come to define a premiership. |
| 1:52.0 | So what happens when you become Prime Minister? |
| 1:58.0 | I remember David phoning Sam up and saying, love you better get your frock ready, we're going to see the Queen. |
| 2:03.0 | The people at work in number ten have longed up the corridor to clap out the outgoing Prime Minister. It's horrible. The union is far barried. |
| 2:11.0 | That same group of people, as we went in, had been there an hour before, we paying as John Major. |
| 2:18.0 | I always think it's a particular kind of torture to make the first act of Prime Minister literally within 30 seconds. |
| 2:24.0 | This extraordinarily dramatic act of handwritten notes only to be opened in the event of an apocalypse. |
| 2:31.0 | The provocation was the President of the United States, Barack Obama, saying, well, David, enjoy this moment. It's all downhill from here. |
| 2:38.0 | Did you just want to go get fired via someone shouting at the corridor? |
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