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Politics Unpacked

What happens when you become PM?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A visit to the Queen, a speech in Downing Street, then what? In a special documentary Matt Chorley speaks to those who know what it is like to move into No10.


Contributors include Tony Blair, the former prime minister; 

Anji Hunter, Blair’s former gatekeeper; 

Gus O’Donnell, the cabinet secretary to Blair, Brown and Cameron; 

Stewart Wood, foreign policy adviser to Brown;

Gabby Bertin, press secretary to Cameron;

and Katie Perrior, May’s director of communications.


For more, read Matt Chorley’s feature in The Times Magazine or at thetimes.co.uk



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

0:08.3

slide by on track to your

0:15.0

there,

0:20.0

to care in the world as you simply lean back.

0:17.0

And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travels should feel,

0:22.0

and on our trains it does.

0:25.0

Avanti West Coast feel good travel. The flash bulbs, the protesters, the's overhead.

0:46.0

Speech delivered from the lectern in Downing Street. The new Prime Minister turns and takes the ten or so steps

0:49.0

towards the most famous door in the world.

0:52.0

But then what? What happens when you become Prime Minister?

0:57.0

It is of course the greatest honor that can come to any citizen in a democracy.

1:08.0

I know full well the responsibilities that await me as I enter the door of number 10.

1:16.0

It is a very exciting thing to become leader of the Conservative Party

1:20.0

and particularly exciting I think to follow one of the most remarkable leaders

1:23.7

that the Conservative Party has ever had.

1:28.7

As I stand here for number 10 down Street. I know the huge responsibility for this

1:38.0

impotony and the great trust in the British people have place.

1:42.0

This will be a new government. British people have a place.

1:47.0

This will be a new government with new priorities. And I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country.

1:54.0

In terms of the future, our country has a hung parliament where no party has an overall majority,

2:00.0

and we have some deep and pressing problems.

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