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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The Brandon Lewis One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Conservative Party chairman talks about popcorn, high street parking and whether he's too young to be a Tory

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.8

The most powerful question in politics.

0:06.2

Here, everywhere, is whose side do you want?

0:10.2

And this week, Jeremy Corbyn stood accused

0:13.3

of picking the wrong side in the great Solzbury poisoning plot.

0:18.6

More about that in just a moment.

0:21.3

But my guest on political thinking

0:23.4

is the Tory party chairman, Brandon Lewis,

0:26.4

whose party stands accused

0:28.5

of being on the wrong side again and again,

0:31.7

on the side of the old and the nostalgic and the pessimistic.

0:36.8

And he knows he's got to do something about it.

0:39.0

Anybody of my age, certainly 40 and below,

0:41.2

but actually for my age,

0:42.3

you can't really remember

0:43.4

what a socialist government did to the country.

0:45.8

And I think, therefore, there is a job for us to do

0:48.7

to make a positive case,

0:50.1

not just why people should vote conservative,

0:51.7

but why the free market and capitalism,

0:53.9

responsible capitalism is good for the community.

0:56.4

And he also tells me about where his Tory values

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