The Alok Sharma One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The COP26 President on the ‘decisive decade’ to tackle climate change, why Swampy runs Britain’s boardrooms and being Mr Boring

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.4	Hello and welcome to Political Thinking.
0:08.6	This week I've been speaking to the man who boasts he's the most boring, interviewee,
0:12.8	in politics.
0:13.8	No, don't turn off.
0:15.7	Whisper who dares, he turns out to be anything but boring.
0:20.8	What I can say, Nick, is that I've spent 11 years cultivating this image of someone
0:25.7	extremely boring and it's clearly worked. I have a feeling that we get destroyed in this
0:30.6	interview.
0:31.6	Alan Sharmer is no mere minister, no mere secretary of state.
0:35.2	He is a president, the president of the COP26 climate change summit, which takes place this
0:42.0	November in Glasgow.
0:43.8	He has, therefore, arguably one of the most important jobs, not just in Britain, but on
0:48.8	the planet, more from him in a moment.
0:52.5	Most mind-musings on another extraordinary week in politics.
0:57.7	Disruptive, divisive, hard to control.
1:01.4	No, not Boris Johnson, not even Wilford Johnson, who briefly captivated world leaders almost
1:07.8	as much as the red arrows and the queen.
1:11.0	I speak instead of Brexit.
1:14.0	Green Sarah Louise of the Liberal Democrat Party is duly elected.
1:18.9	In the UK, the Conservatives suffer a crushing defeat in the Cheshire and Amishin Parliamentary
1:27.5	by election in England.
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