The Rishi Sunak PM One - From the Archives

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

Politics, News

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Nick Robinson revisits his interview with the new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, from late 2019. The then-chief secretary to the treasury discussed working in his mother’s pharmacy, why he chose to vote Leave and his knowledge of The Force

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.2	Hello and welcome to Political Thinking.
0:07.6	I'm Nick Robinson.
0:08.8	Political thinking is my weekly podcast,
0:11.0	a conversation with not an interrogation of someone
0:15.9	who shapes our political thinking about what shapes theirs.
0:19.6	Over the years, I've talked to many of the leading figures
0:22.9	in British politics.
0:24.6	And these interviews, unlike the ones I do in my day job
0:28.4	on the today program, are not about the news
0:31.2	at such, they're about the men and women
0:34.3	and what makes them the people they are.
0:37.3	Rishi Sunak is now our new prime minister.
0:41.4	And he has rarely spoken about his life story
0:45.6	and about the influences on it.
0:47.6	But when I spoke to him back in November 2019,
0:50.9	when at the time he was virtually unknown
0:53.0	and had just become chief secretary to the treasury,
0:56.6	in effect the deputy chancellor, he was happy
1:00.2	to talk about his life and what had shaped the man he was.
1:05.9	He was already seen to be a rising star
1:08.9	within Westminster in no small part
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