The David Lidington One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

Politics, News

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Deputy Prime Minister on doing PMQs, the Tory leadership battle and the dreaded 3am phone call, plus some Elizabethan history and a re-enactment of University Challenge

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Boris Johnson got so many votes in the first round of the Tory leadership contest
0:09.6	that many decided that he'd already won the race.
0:13.9	Boris Johnson, 114.
0:17.2	Not so fast.
0:19.0	If you look at the history, he wasn't the favourite.
0:22.2	That was not the favourite.
0:23.2	Major wasn't the favourite.
0:24.4	He wasn't the favourite.
0:25.7	That was not the favourite.
0:27.4	Cameron May, we're not the favourites at the start.
0:29.6	I think it's still very open.
0:32.2	No candidate can take things for granted and shouldn't.
0:34.7	It would be very arrogant to replace
0:36.5	with anybody to take things for granted.
0:38.2	That's my guest on Political Thinking this week, David Livington,
0:42.2	who we always call Theresa May's effective deputy.
0:46.6	More from him in just a moment.
0:49.3	Now you might think that suggestion that the favourite never wins
0:53.2	isn't just the conventional wisdom of the day.
0:56.2	It's become almost a cliche.
0:58.9	But I have covered all too many Tory leadership contests
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