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What impact would it have on you if you witnessed an attempt to murder your father and

you yourself survived a bomb attack?

Happily most of us never have to confront that question.

Not so my guest on this week's political thinking, Arlene Foster, the first minister of Northern

Ireland.

She is now managing the coronavirus crisis in coalition with those who used to justify

political violence.

Until recently, she held the balance of power in Westminster.

Until that is, she helped to precipitate the fall of Theresa May and help to usher Boris

Johnson into Downing Street.

Arlene Foster, welcome to political thinking.

Thank you.

What have you been missing most in the lockdown?

Oh gracious, there's a lot of things I've been missing, obviously missing my hairdresser.

And missing church, I have to say singing in particular and I know that may sound a little

strange, but I love congregational singing, so I've missed that on a Sunday morning.

I think there's a lot of things that we've taken for granted over the years, the freedoms

that we have and when we're told that we can't do them all of a sudden, they've become

incredibly important to us, but yeah, it's the little things that we miss the most.

So have you chosen a song that you're most looking forward to singing again?

Or a head maybe?

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