Show 360. Sir Graham Brady

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Sir Graham Brady

What's it like telling a Prime Minister their time is up?

Sir Graham chaired the 1922 Committee throughout the tenure of five Conservative Prime Ministers.

In this entertaining interview he tells us what those private moments with them were like and how each of them used their power differently.

This is the thrilling inside account of the most tumultuous political time in living memory.

BUY Sir Graham's book 'Kingmaker' here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingmaker-Secrets-Truth-about-Ministers/dp/1804188263

SEE Matt at on tour until March 2025, including his extra dates at The Bloomsbury Theatre: https://www.mattforde.com/live-shows

2024

24 October: Hull, Truck Theatre

6 November: Exeter, Phoenix

8 November: Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre

14 November: Basingstoke, The Haymarket

15 November: Colchester Arts Centre

20 November: York, The Crescent

21 November: Chorley, Little Theatre

22 November: Salford, The Lowry

27 November: Chipping Norton Theatre

28 November: Leicester, Y Theatre

29 November: Eastleigh, The Berry

31 November: Faversham, The Alexander Centre

6 December: London, Bloomsbury Theatre - EXTRA DATE

14 December: London, Bloomsbury Theatre - EXTRA DATE

2025

29 January: Norwich, Playhouse - EXTRA DATE

4 February: Leeds, City Varieties

5 February: Sheffield, The Leadmill

6 February: Chelmsford Theatre

7 February: Bedford, The Quarry Theatre

12 February: Bath, Komedia

13 February: Southend, Palace Theatre

16 February: Cambridge, The Junction

20 February: Nottingham, Lakeside Arts

23 February: Brighton, Komedoa

25 February: Cardiff, Glee Club

26 February: Bury St Edmunds, Theatre Royal

28 February: Chelmsford Theatre - EXTRA DATE

2 March: Bristol, Tobacco Factory

4 March: Colchester Arts Centre - EXTRA DATE

6 March: Birmingham, Glee Club - EXTRA DATE

7 March: Maidenhead, Norden Farm - EXTRA DATE

11 March: Aberdeen, Lemon Tree

12 March: Glasgow, Glee Club

27 March: Oxford, Glee Club - EXTRA DATE

28 March: Nottingham, Lakeside Arts Centre - EXTRA DATE

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0:31.6	4-work. work. Hello and
0:45.0	welcome to the political party.
0:46.0	Today's guest is Graham Brady, the former chair of the
0:49.3	1922 committee.
0:51.0	He's got a new book out called Kingmaker and it is absolutely superb.
0:55.0	If you love inside stuff from politics, the inside account of what it was like to deal with five different
1:01.0	conservative Prime Ministers, Cameron May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak, and those
1:05.2	incredible moments of drama where no confidence thresholds are met and they've lost the
1:10.9	confidence of their parliamentary parties and how they all react differently to that.
1:14.4	And there's so much more in it anyway.
1:16.0	And it's just a really good account of a life in politics and a life in a very important political
1:22.0	position.
1:23.0	Obviously I love political biographies and autobiographies and
1:28.0	people obviously telling their own story.
1:30.0	But it's a great, it's a great perspective because it's not a story of cabinet. It's a story of having to deal with the most powerful person in the country from a position of another power and a different type of it and we talk about that and what it was like having to handle those moments of tension and sadness and drama and how they all differed.
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