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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The David Gauke One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Justice Secretary on slaying unicorns, why he might quit the Cabinet and his overnight stay in prison.

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

Oh my god, my head hurts.

0:07.9

And I've not drunk a thing.

0:09.5

I have got the most enormous Brexit hangover.

0:14.6

Years of covering politics and nothing prepared me for a week quite like this one.

0:20.8

A week of parliamentary pantomime with lip readers, rowing with lip speakers, they are different

0:27.5

apparently.

0:28.5

But much more interestingly, in truth, cabinet government breaking down with rival ministers

0:36.9

and rival factions briefing what they think should happen when the Prime Minister's deal

0:42.9

eventually bites the dust.

0:45.9

Which brings me to my guest on the podcast this week, Justice Secretary David Gork, if

0:51.1

you ever write his memoirs.

0:52.9

He might be tempted to seek inspiration in JK Rowling's work.

0:57.9

Fantastic beasts.

0:59.9

And how to slay them.

1:01.4

The story I think went round that I said we should slaughter unicorns and actually said

1:06.2

slay unicorns.

1:08.4

Which doesn't make very much difference to the unicorn.

1:10.8

It would be fair to say but a slightly gentler word.

1:13.2

It doesn't sound as if I was on some sort of murderous rampage.

1:16.6

The unicorn, which David Gork, who'd much rather stay in the EU than leave it has in his

1:22.6

face, is the unicorn called Managed No Deal.

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