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Welcome to Political Thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone

who shapes our thinking about what has shaped theirs.

Well, you know what they say about a week in politics?

What a long time this week has felt.

Since that budget that was officially not a budget, we've seen the pound go down, interest

rates go up, mortgages being cancelled and billions and billions and billions of pounds

being spent by the Bank of England in order to try and defend the pension system.

My guest on Political Thinking this week is a new member of Liz Truss's new cabinet.

He's the Education Secretary, Kit Maltouse, who covers schooling in England.

For years before then, he'd done more junior roles, having been deputy to Boris Johnson,

not as Prime Minister, but when he was mayor of London.

Kit Maltouse is seen as a fixer.

He becomes the fifth Education Secretary in a little over a year.

A sign of just how unstable politics has been.

Kit Maltouse, welcome to Political Thinking.

Thank you, I'm flattered to be here.

Well, it's been a rollercoaster ride this week, has it?

It has been a challenging week, as they say.

I think that's the euphemism that politicians use.

But hopefully things will settle.

Although I have to say it comes, I mean, I got elected in 2015,

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