The Helle Thorning-Schmidt One
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson
BBC
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The former Danish PM offers advice on life after office, dealing with populists and whether she wants to run the EU
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Theresa May is about to join a very exclusive club, |
| 0:10.0 | the club of ex-prime ministers. |
| 0:13.3 | And this week, on Political Thinking, |
| 0:15.4 | a member of that club has some advice for her. |
| 0:18.9 | It's really awful. |
| 0:19.8 | First of all, you have the blues. |
| 0:21.5 | I've got to be honest about that. |
| 0:23.0 | You have the blues. |
| 0:23.7 | You don't know quite where to go. |
| 0:25.3 | Your whole team has gone. |
| 0:26.8 | Car, nice police officer that was protecting you. |
| 0:29.5 | Everything's gone. |
| 0:30.7 | I started by getting my bike fixed, |
| 0:32.7 | so I could bike round Copenhagen |
| 0:34.2 | and trying to work out how the bus system worked. |
| 0:36.8 | That's Hello Thorning Schmidt. |
| 0:39.0 | Former Prime Minister of Denmark, |
| 0:41.8 | currently Chief Executive of Save the Children International. |
| 0:45.8 | And as it happens, part of a power couple, |
| 0:49.5 | she's married to the Labour MP, Stephen Kiddick. |
| 0:53.1 | More from her, not just on what it's like to lose office, |
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