Nadhim Zahawi on why young people aren't snowflakes

Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Education Secretary joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion following the release of his white paper. Nadhim Zahawi stresses why he thinks teachers should focus on teaching young minds how to think, not what to think, why schools should maybe have stayed open for everyone during the pandemic, and how he's applying his experience from the vaccine rollout to his new role.

Plus, the Telegraph's Ben Riley-Smith gives us the lay of the land when it comes to the Prime Minister's standing as war rages in Europe, a cost of living crisis looms, and the spectre of 'partygate' returns.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's politics.
0:05.0	Putting a warning notes on Shakespeare or something.
0:08.0	Is that people being overprotective for people who don't need the protection?
0:10.0	I think that those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds
0:17.1	how to think, not what to think.
0:21.3	I'm Christopher Chopper Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor for Politics, and this is Chopper's Politics.
0:28.0	Well MPs leave Westminster this week for their Easter holidays, but before they scatter off to the four winds
0:34.4	and their constituencies like pupils leaving school at the end of the school day I've
0:39.2	managed to persuade the Education Secretary Nunezi, to join us in the Red Lion pub.
0:45.0	More on that later.
0:47.0	But first, as MPs tuck into their Easter eggs, will Boris Johnson be entering the parliamentary recess with a spring in his step.
0:55.5	Just as Britain's reaction to the conflict in Ukraine seemed to rescue the PM of reputation,
1:01.0	this week saw the specter of so-called party gate rear its head once again.
1:07.3	To help us make sense of it all and where it leaves Boris Johnson, I'm joined by the
1:11.6	telegraphs political editor Ben Riley Smith. Ben welcome to the pub.
1:16.0	Thanks for having me, I'm excited.
1:18.0	Good now, isn't it? It's been snowing right I live in Hertfordshire today, but in the countryside lambs are skipping
1:23.0	easter eggs being eaten next week daffodils are swaying in the breeze but will
1:27.3	the PM resign of a party gate? I would be amazed if he will resign over
1:32.3	party gates.
1:32.8	So I think it's pretty simple to say no.
1:34.7	Certainly had no indication of that, even at the height of party gate,
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