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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The Keir Starmer One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Labour's Brexit Secretary discusses the ups and downs of his upbringing, his youthful attacks on 'reformist passivity' and how he let burglars steal his television

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.0

Just when you think you know where you are,

0:06.0

when you think you know what the news story is,

0:08.0

when you think you know what you've got to get your head round

0:11.0

or that picking cherries and having cake and eating it and pick and mix.

0:16.0

Suddenly another story comes along and looks even bigger than the one you've been focusing on.

0:23.0

I was talking about that to a group of kids in Sheffield.

0:27.0

This podcast comes from Sheffield this week.

0:30.0

And I was recalling to them the time I was talking to Tony Blair's advisor

0:35.0

about what he'd say in a big speech to the TUC

0:38.0

was September 2001.

0:41.0

And just as he was thinking how much to tell me,

0:44.0

his phone went and he looked at me, said, don't worry about it.

0:49.0

You'll never do that broadcast.

0:51.0

A plane has just flown in to one of the twin towers in New York.

0:56.0

For a couple of minutes, we thought that was all it was.

1:00.0

We didn't realise the world was about to change.

1:04.0

Well, it's been a week like that, a week of conspiracy stories.

1:09.0

A week where we don't know when I record this,

1:12.0

who exactly poisoned those people in Salisbury.

1:15.0

But you might by the time you listen to this.

1:20.0

Tonight at 10, Scotland Yard reveals that a nerve agent was used

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