William Hague talks to prime minister Rishi Sunak about being a dad, AI, and a terrible political inheritance
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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In our new monthly series of interviews, former foreign secretary and Times columnist William Hague speaks to his first guest, prime minister Rishi Sunak in Downing Street about juggling work and life as a dad, the threats and opportunities of AI, and inheriting ‘the worst hospital pass in many decades.’
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Guest: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Host: William Hague.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas |
| 0:06.0 | flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all that's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:11.8 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas. We increased the proportion |
| 0:15.8 | of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses |
| 0:20.6 | from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:25.8 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:28.6 | Girls I've had an absolute nightmare. |
| 0:33.6 | What? |
| 0:34.6 | No, no, no, it's too embarrassing. |
| 0:36.4 | You have to. |
| 0:37.4 | Okay, one sec, let me turn my camera on. |
| 0:39.8 | No, it said Indigo Hask on the path. |
| 0:44.0 | So screenshot in his babe. |
| 0:46.0 | Your hair's blue. |
| 0:47.0 | No, it's not that bad. |
| 0:48.0 | You look good. |
| 0:49.0 | I like like Papa Smurf. |
| 0:51.0 | What are you? |
| 0:52.0 | Please network is gigahertz so yours can |
| 0:54.4 | giggle till it hurts. |
| 0:57.0 | Life needs a big network, three. Hello I'm William Haig, welcome to the story and I'm going to be talking to the Prime Minister. |
| 1:15.8 | This of course is not a normal political interview. I can't pretend to be impartial. |
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