Bonus Podcast: Cameron Years Episode 2

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Part Two focuses on David Cameron's mission to modernise and transform the Conservative party and its thinking, exploring ideas such as the Big Society, the major shake-up of education and health policy, social reforms such as same-sex marriage and the ambition to make the party more environmentally conscious. We examine the impact of the financial crisis and "austerity" on the Cameron governments. We ask whether there is such a thing as "Cameronism" and we assess the success of David Cameron's mission to make the Conservatives more diverse and representative of modern Britain.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:04.0	In the first episode, we open with the great big question
0:07.5	arising from the Cameron years.
0:09.8	How was it that a leader who began by telling his party to stop banging on about Europe
0:16.0	allowed it to bang on loud enough to take the UK out of the EU against his wishes?
0:25.0	There's a second big question.
0:27.0	How was it that a leader who defined himself as a moderniser
0:31.0	leaves behind a party in which a figure like Jacob Riesmog often described as
0:36.0	the MP for the 18th century is now tipped as a possible conservative leader
0:42.0	cheered to the rafters at party meetings.
0:46.0	We will change the way we look.
0:48.0	We need to change the way we feel.
0:51.0	We need to change the way we think.
0:54.0	This was David Cameron's promise on becoming party leader in December 2005.
0:59.0	In this episode, we examine how far he succeeded.
1:03.0	Nikki Morgan was Education Secretary under Cameron.
1:06.0	Oliver Letwim was a close ally and central ministerial figure.
1:10.0	While the commentator Camilla Cavendish worked in number 10 under Cameron.
1:16.0	Camilla Cavendish first.
1:18.0	David Cameron brought the Conservative Party to the centre ground
1:21.0	and he made it look completely different.
1:23.0	As a journalist, I went to party conferences for about 10 years.
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