Grant Shapps
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Grant Shapps is the Transport Secretary who has navigated a complex political landscape, demonstrating a focus on long-term outcomes and strategic thinking. This interview reveals his commitment to using data to inform decisions and his belief in the necessity of calculated risks to achieve meaningful change.
“With data, if you get it right, what people sometimes call big data these days isn't quite big data, but you get to a level of detail in granularity that most people miss.”
“Complexity there are. So actually, it really segues back into the previous conversation very well. If you are going to do something, as you say, sounds like a binary, what are all the complications, then the course of the one thing you want to know under that plaster?”
“Well, I mean, everyone now seen these yellow hammer documents, which are the thing called the reasonable worst case scenario. And I look at that, and that's absolutely true. If you did nothing, that would be the reasonable worst case scenario. The point of this is that we're not doing nothing. We are preparing. We are ready.”
“Nothing certain in life, we all know that. But here's the thing the country voted three and a half years ago, forget Boris, forget everything else.”
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson — The Grant Shapps One
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