The Sam Gyimah One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The new Universities minister talks about the importance of free speech on campus, growing up in Ghana, being Oxford president and life as David Cameron's bag carrier.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:03.6	Why does it always seem to happen when a Prime Minister
0:06.9	dares to leave these shores?
0:09.1	The grumbling, the rumbling, the mumbling begins.
0:13.3	Not just Theresa May in China.
0:16.5	I think back to Tony Blair,
0:18.8	a trip I covered in Australia,
0:20.8	when the questions about whether he could survive
0:23.2	as leader and Prime Minister started to blow up.
0:26.8	I think a Gordon Brown.
0:29.3	In the Rose Garden of the White House,
0:31.6	being asked about his decision to scrap the Tempe tax rate
0:36.0	and George Bush making a lame joke,
0:38.8	thinking it was about Tempe Arizona.
0:41.9	I think of David Cameron basking in the pleasure
0:46.0	of having a state visit and a vast banquet
0:48.8	laid on by Barack Obama, only to hear that the headlines
0:53.2	were all about an omnichamples.
0:55.6	You can't go abroad to escape your troubles.
0:59.6	Tonight at 10, the Prime Minister says she is not a quitter
1:03.6	as she is forced to defend attacks on her leadership.
1:06.2	On a trade visit to China, Theresa May admitted
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