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The vaccine programme is a great British success story.

The face, the voice of it for the government at least, is Nadim Zahawi, the business minister

and the minister for vaccine deployment.

Born in Baghdad to an influential family who fled from Saddam Hussein when a team was

just nine years old.

An entrepreneur, he founded the polling company Yugov, making millions when it floated.

He's often described as a great wheeladilla.

A fellow Torian P says he get your mangoes in the Antarctic and Brussels sprouts in the

desert.

Nadim Zahawi, welcome to Political Thinking.

Thank you very much, Nick.

Are you the luckiest minister in Britain?

You've been handed a job where you go from studio to studio saying, look how well we're

doing, it's all a great success.

Well, I have to say, it's probably the most important job I'll ever do as a minister.

So it really does matter that we get the operation right.

Now, my background is, I'm a chemical engineer from UCL.

I love operational challenges.

When I was first promoted into government, I was the apprenticeship Zah.

And I remember Nick Bowles being the minister saying, look, I love policy, but I don't like

operational side.

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