Is it ok to feel sorry for Theresa May?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Theresa May has had many tough weeks during her premiership, but this week could be the toughest – or even her last. Her ministers are resigning, Parliament is criticising her Brexit deal and members of her own party are writing letters calling for her head, but through all of this she keeps on going. Should we admire her resilience or is this a mess of her own making? When Tina tweeted about this last week she got a huge response, so we asked Joey D’Urso and Ben Wright from the BBC’s Westminster office to weigh in.
Producers: Harriet Noble, Jaja Muhammad Editor : John Shields
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Tina Dehealy. |
| 0:07.9 | You're listening to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4, |
| 0:10.5 | where we ask one big question about one big story every day. |
| 0:14.0 | Today is it okay to feel sorry for Theresa May. |
| 0:27.0 | Joey your job is to shout at people isn't it? Yeah well not just kind of for fun |
| 0:36.0 | it's as his job as a sort as we call it a field producer so I am often kind of out and |
| 0:41.0 | about in Westminster looking for politicians because often they don't tell us where they are. |
| 0:46.0 | Often they don't pick up the phone when we say we'd like to interview about something so we have to kind of hunt them down ourselves. |
| 0:52.0 | And so I've been outside various people's houses all week, |
| 0:55.1 | Estam Vay, Michael Gove, Liam Fox. And people always are joking this job, they say, |
| 1:00.0 | oh do you shout, are you going to resign at people every day and well no because that |
| 1:03.2 | would be a bit weird really if you just you know on a normal Tuesday and people |
| 1:06.2 | they're kind of look at you and think well obviously I'm not what you're talking about |
| 1:09.0 | but this week yeah I've shouted that about five different politicians because it's a legitimate question, |
| 1:14.2 | because lots of cabinet ministers have resigned. |
| 1:16.2 | Do you still support the Prime Minister's Brexit plan, Minister? |
| 1:18.4 | Do you know, I don't know why you stand outside my flat every morning? |
| 1:21.5 | You never get anything from me. Do you still support the Prime Minister's plan. |
| 1:24.0 | Will you be shouting at Theresa May this week? |
| 1:27.0 | But yeah, I might do. I don't know what I'd ask, I don't know what I'd ask, |
| 1:30.0 | I don't know what I'd shout, what would you shout at Theresa May this week? |
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