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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The Liz Truss One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury on why she's a 'freedom fighter', her penchant for British cheese and why any deal on Brexit 'doesn't bind future parliaments'.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.8

I was in the garden of 10 Downing Street this week.

0:07.0

The wine was flowing, the sun was hot,

0:10.2

the conversation hotter still.

0:13.0

And yet somehow, when the Prime Minister walked in

0:16.2

to greet the political journalists

0:18.2

of the annual lobby drinks,

0:20.2

there wasn't the sense of moment,

0:23.4

the sense of jeopardy,

0:25.2

which you might have expected,

0:27.0

given the extraordinary events

0:29.0

of recent days and weeks.

0:31.2

And yet imagine, if a few weeks ago,

0:34.0

I had suggested the foreign secretary would quit.

0:38.0

Good evening from Westminster,

0:40.0

where Theresa May has been fighting

0:42.0

to maintain support for her Brexit strategy,

0:44.6

following the resignation of Boris Johnson

0:47.0

as foreign secretary.

0:48.0

The Brexit Secretary would quit.

0:51.0

Within the past few minutes,

0:52.0

the Brexit Secretary has resigned from the government.

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