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Anna Soubry

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first: 2018-02-23
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“I won't go away. This is more important than anything else I think that has ever happened in my life. In fact it is because it isn't about my generation. It is genuinely about my children and their children's generation. We have made a terrible mistake by voting to leave the European Union. I've accepted it. I voted against my conscience. I held my nose literally voting to trigger Article 50. I voted against my conscience. I then stood in the general election and I made it very clear every piece of literature, every email newsletter and everything said I would continue to fight for the single market, the customs union and the positive benefits of immigration. I am never going to vote against my conscience again. I will not do that. I will put my constituents and my country's interests before any other interests.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, under Chukaramuna, of course. Look, I'm a pragmatic Tory, for God's sakes. I put my country first, and I'm afraid if you look at Jacob's views on abortion, these are seriously concerning views, he wouldn't even allow abortion for a child who'd been raped by her own father. I mean, that's not the Conservative Party. That's not my politics I wouldn't have any of that I would leave, and many others would leave.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“at the I've said I wouldn't stay in the Tory party I wouldn't join the Labour Party but I wouldn't stay in the Tory Party if Jacob becomes leader and not alone in that either and no debate about that better”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If somebody like Jacob, which is inconceivable, I think, of him running the Conservative Party, whilst his form of hard Brexit would undoubtedly do huge damage to our country, I think that Riesmog could be checked more by his membership and by his members of parliament than Corbyn because at the moment we have a Labour Party that actually is knackered. It is knackered. My party is redeemable. And, you know, if people stand up, if the sensible people rejoin, see off these people, we can get back to where we should be in the centre ground, a modern effective, business led party. The real danger is that we will lose that.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's only because Jeremy Corbyn is such a ghastly alternative and would do so much harm to our economy and his crew that we are not in a position whereby labour is thirty points in the lead in the polls. Who'd be worse for Britain? They are in London.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think, yeah, Maud Jacob, and that strain of thought, which I'm sure you're familiar with, which is actually very odd that thinks that almost the people should determine everything and you wouldn't have, you know, they'd regale against civil servants, against lawyers, and people they just dismiss as elites probably because they couldn't join them because they didn't have the ability to join them and don't understand how a properly functioning democracy works. And the idea, these are people actually would elect judges. Sorry, it's not a conservative thing to do at all. And the profound danger, and in fact this has happened, all the great strides that David Cameron made in making my party electable, he'd reached out, anchored in that centre ground, and reached out to people who had left us in droves for 13 years in the wilderness. He reached out and literally in a matter of weeks. That was all destroyed.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no, no, there is an argument, and this is my complaint about David Cameron. I think he had the opportunity to sort out, it's a small number. But I don't think they are Tories because they have such a”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ever happened On the customs union. What on the customs union? They didn't sit in the railway in Nelson and Kimberley, and sit there other night saying, You know, this customs union, that's a good job we're going to get out of that when we revoked. Of course they didn't. They voted to leave and they voted to leave for all sorts of different reasons. And we know for a fact that in certain parts of our country, immigration was a major factor in it. But the idea that ordinary leave voters in huge swathes of our country sat there cogitating on the pros and cons of the customs union, the single market, look, we've got members of parliament who don't even understand what the customs union is in the single market. Never mind ordinary decent human beings out there in the real world. Good God.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I actually don't predict anything at the moment because I don't think anybody can. I don't know what will happen. What I do know is I believe there are enough conservative backbenchers who will vote in favour of a customs union that could cause great difficulty for the government. And I also believe that there are a growing number of conservative backbenchers, including people who voted leave and not leave a lights, but a little bit more heavy than the leave of lights, who are looking at EFTA and want to settle on EFTA. Now, if I'm right in that, then the government absolutely is duty-bound to reach out and you could settle there. Bis has got to put away these nonsenses because he doesn't believe in them. And she's got to see them off. And I do mean that.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I didn't have that conversation with him. I've done it with others. I have done it with others. Not with Boris last night”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's very difficult not to like Boris because he does all that sort of cuddly puppy. But I did have this serious conversation with him last night. And what is deeply disturbing is that he is entrenched now as a hard Brexiteer. The man who used to believe in the single market, and I told him you were a great mayor of London, which he was, and one of the reasons that he was a great mayor of London is that he always put this great city, this great capital first and foremost United Boris. You have got to put business first and foremost the interests of this country, your children's interests and your grandchildren's before this madness and this nonsense. And he had nothing to say.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But if he was leader, I'd be in difficulty if Boris were leader. The trouble is with Boris, is that, see, I don't dislike anybody. Apart from John MacDonald, who I genuinely do dislike.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, if I'm leader. No. That's what I don't understand. Because if I were him, I wouldn't even look at me even less say, hello, Ala, how are you doing?”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I didn't hold back. He had no answers. He just comes out and he says, it's all going to be fine. It's all going to be fine. And I said, Boris, it's not going to be fine. And you've got to stop using this sort of bologna. I didn't use the word bologna. It was ruder. More direct. That's direct language. Because, you know, you've got to listen to people who frankly have done jobs that you and I have never done.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is lost on us is a You've called him for a caning at this sort of school. Who is that? That Boris went to your newspaper down your trousers. Oh, I see. Oh, no, I understand. Thank you so much. I don't know what the bloody eye was talking about. I thought it was to do with protecting his front bit, not the back bit. Anyway, never mind. So I had quite a conversation with Boris last night.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You leader with a new arrangement? It could be, but truthfully, I think we are looking to October. I think there could be all manner of crisis before then you've got March. Well, damn it, we've got today. You know, I spoke to Boris last night in the lobby. I had a conversation with Boris. I was a little bit perturbed because a number of people witnessed this conversation. And one of them came up to me, I've got to say who afterwards and said, did Boris have a newspaper stuck down his trousers? I thought, what the hell are they talking about? Apparently they thought I was going to get him in the”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She personally will be in difficulty, but the government won't be in difficulty, and that's the big mistake everybody makes. And of course there will be all these threats about, oh, it's a vote of confidence in the government and all this baloney. And it is baloney because you need two-thirds, as you know, with a fixed-term Parliament Act and so on and so forth. And it shouldn't be enough to get the government into trouble. She's got a choice.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There are alternatives, and the EU will have made it clear. You can stay, you can take Norway. So there are alternatives, and I don't think she's worked all this out.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I don't think they've worked this out properly. They think that they've got to keep throwing red meat to the hard Brexiteers. And imagine if she'd said, you know what, after the June, she should have said after June, right, the people have spoken, we're not having this hardware. We're going to get this consensus. Let's change the debate to where it should be, which is about Single Market Customs Union and possible some Canadian-style deal. And if she settled on the customs union, the single market, she would call out the chuckers and the Chris Leslies and all the rest of them. And she'd say, right, this is it. You're going to vote for it, aren't you? Because you have no option because you say this is what you believe in. That is what she could have achieved. And at the moment, the terrible risk she runs is that she'll get some woolly heads of agreement, no detail, and she will put that to Parliament, and the majority will say we know Labour will vote against it, and the rest will vote against it and say no, we don't want this as long as it's made clear.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Heard to change as a person, you mean and change this back. The ability. Never doubted it. That's why I voted for her. I backed very early on. She has the ability, but she's had, I think what's happened is that she's had so many blows and knocks. And I mean, that election defeat to go in 20 points ahead and then to lose your majority. And, you know, Theresa, all our literature said, I'm standing with Theresa May. It was all about Theresa. It must have been a devastating moment. She lost her two props in the wake of that. And I think she finds it difficult. But she's got the ability. She's just got to be. She's got to see who her real friends are, and we made it very clear very, very clear from the outset that we were on her side.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who knows? But you don't know, do on Brexit. But this is all on Brexit. And that was the big mistake that Theresa made when she got elected leader. What she did was she pandered to the hard Brexiteers. Instead of saying, I'm going to disappoint some people, right? We're going to do this properly and we're going to do it in the interest of the entire country and we're all going to come back together and are going to force us all to work together to form a consensus. She would then have gone over effectively. She should have called out the Labour Party. Yes, MP, all of them said, look, are you all going to come in and we'll do this together? And she would effectively have gone over the heads of Corbyn and she would appeal to those sensible, moderate Labour MPs and in the process of doing the right thing on Brexit forming a consensus putting the national interest first, actually she would have delivered a devastating blow to the Labour Party and at the moment, I'm afraid to say, if she doesn't change tack, my party is on a very”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's other ways that you can form coalitions with people and agreements with people. Damn, damn it. We're meant to be in an arrangement with the DUP supply and confidence. I'm looking to see some evidence of that, frankly. So formalized.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm afraid Theresa had it within her gift to reach out, not just in the parliamentary party, but in the country, and that has been a huge disappointment she's not reached out to the forty eight cent.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, they do. Yeah. But that's why that vote back in December was an astonishing moment. I mean, you know, Sir Oliver healed, a delightful man, a bastion, if you like, of the Conservative Party. I think he would have imagined himself sprouting wings before he would ever rebel against his party. And Dominic, Dominic grieve, what a journey he has been on, what a brave, wonderful, courageous man he's been. But these are the so called rebels and mutineers. And as Ken Clark said, far better than I as ever. But he said, you know, I have ordered Ken, and I and all these other people. We have supported fifty years this policy has been the policy of the Conservative Party for fifty years, and now suddenly almost over night. We are mutineers, rebels, enemies of the people. What a disgraceful way to carry on.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Actually, want us to stay in A customs union arrangement. God, I don't care what you call it, it's what it delivers. And if it delivers that frictionless movement of goods, of trade, we're having it.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, of course. The government has to be defeated. I vote it wasn't a defeat. I'd rather the government said actually the majority of members of parliament”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If the mistake Theresa has made is not to really get into the Tory party in Parliament and really tease out where people are. And the danger is she is terrified of Boris Riesmog and that gang, and it's a terrible mistake she's made and she's been badly advised on it as well.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Leads the European research. I think these are the numbers who actually would support Jacob. But anyway, that's another matter. This is somebody who signed that letter. I spoke to yesterday evening and I said to him, and he says, I leave, he's a proper leave guy. And I said, is it right because I'd heard from another friend who is a leave person who is looking at Efter EA and likes it, and would settle on it because it can deliver for his constituents. And I said to this person, are you interested in it? He's right. He said, look, I've had conversations with some other people. He said, yeah, I'd take that, Anna. He said, I'd take that as a compromise. So we can get on with it. I can believe it. So if people like him are thinking like that, and he's somebody who signed that letter,”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll give you an example, I won't say who. So, somebody I know who signed that letter. That the 63 had put out the other day.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It will go, it will start out there in the real world with real people standing up, saying what they think, having the courage British business, stop hiding behind some of these weak weasel words. Tell us what you bloody want. Stop pulling your punchers. This is again something that history will record the lack of honesty from people who've been almost beaten into submission by the cries and the howls of the certain sections of the media and certain politicians. So it's time now for everybody to cut the crap, say it like it is, and have a proper, we're actually having the debate we should have had before the referendum, but it is possible that comes from the country and then it's there in parliament and again colleagues have got to be big and brave and honest. And people are already changing their minds.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course, it's possible. If the British people say woe enough. We want to change our minds, we want a proper think about this. We didn't realize it was going to be so complicated. There's a lot of that coming back from the doorstep now. And we didn't realize how serious the economic consequences would be. Then the British people are entitled to change their minds. And that is absolutely fundamental. It's incredibly important people realise it does not have to be like this.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but you know why, but not the over 8 issue. And you know why? Because she remembered In workshop, seeing Sheffield in the distance in flames during the bombing of Sheffield, and for my mother the EU was all about peace and security and bringing countries together, and she saw that being taken away.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what she told my daughters that she'd gone into the garden in the morning, and she'd shed tears. My mother, who's never lived anywhere else in her life than worksop or in North Nottinghamshire villages, who worked as a radiographer, which part of liberal metropolitan elite did she find most offensive? You know, my mother's over 18. Of course, she is that generation. If you look at the analysis that's been done of the results, it begins to tail away for the over 80s. In other words,”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I knew we were in big trouble, and knew that, because I'd been out in my own constituency in Nottingham as well, campaigning for remains. So I knew what I was getting back, and I knew we were in big trouble. When that Sunderland result came through, it was absolutely clear. We'd lost. Yeah, that was it. That was it.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, there was only once, there was one time when I was genuinely wobb And that was when my team said to me, look, we've had some bad stuff in the past. We haven't shown you this, but we now need to show you it. And actually, they printed it out. And this was the stuff I handed in to the speaker because it really was atrocious. And it was after the mutineers thing. And I was wobbled by that. I actually was twitchy. I would look over my shoulder. Oh, yeah, because I was worried. And I lead a completely normal life, remember. I go shopping in Senos or whatever, but I do. And that wobbled me, and even now sometimes I sort of just think, actually I probably should take a little bit more”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't really think of it like that. I suppose so. Obviously, I disagree with the gobby bit, but... No, I mean, Aronovich said something quite nice about me the other week, which obviously hugely flattered because I admire him so much. And he did say I was fierce, which I suppose is true, and fearless. And I am fearless. I mean, Neil, my other half, says, you know, it could be because I'm genuinely brave or just.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wasn't confrontational. I was definitely put into this position by my colleagues on the basis that I would get a better deal because I was against all these champagne socialist bosses. And give it to this Tory Sewer and she'll do it. But I mean, you know, I would stand up for my colleagues who weren't on the right pay grades, even if they didn't complain about it.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But he led the strike at British Leyland. He came to NUS conference and I sat up on the top with the executive. He spoke. Everybody rose to give him a standing ovation. And I sat there. I did what instinctively felt right. And you then found yourself on the front page all the papers, this brave, lone Tory and all the rest of it. And I did it because it was the right thing to do. And it was, I'm an instinctive politician.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I suppose so. But a lot of this is not, I promise you, is not orchestrated. And people don't believe this. If you dug into, nobody's done this, dug into the archive.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Genuine hero Labour. And one of the bravest people I've ever met, politically brave people. I have a massive admiration. But you love the fight.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, no, but he said again, I think it was rebellious because there weren't many of us. And so if you want to be rebellious in many ways, I suppose you joined the Tories. And it took some courage and you'd go to these conferences where usually the debate was between the IMG and the old SWP. I mean, different strands of Trotsky. All of this is lost on probably, what, at least one generation, if not two generations. And you had proper, we had Maoists, all sorts and brilliant, some brilliant members from the left. I mean, you know, Aronovich, who was what they called a Euro communist.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly Heath was cocking it up big style and I decided to join the Liberals. I don't know how I did it. I must have found a number in and rung. And so I joined the Liberals. Then I went to university, went to Birmingham, met the Liberals there. I'm sorry, but they were all mad, liberal anarchist, I mean, they were just otherworldly. And after a couple of years, I sort of thought, be the woman you really are. Out of the closet, you're a Tory.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I joined the Liberal Party at the age of seventeen, and it was the minor strike, and it was in that run up to the second election. And Heath was cocking it up.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was watching North Tonight BBC Local TV, and there were shots of must have been the old cold board headquarters up in Doncaster where my mother worked in the Royal Infirmary as a radiographer. But there they were in Doncaster. And there were women, young women, going into work in the offices of the coal board. And there were big, strong men standing there and spitting on these young women and calling them scab and scum. And I saw that. And I think that was one of the moments that forged my politics. And the other was when we went comprehensive for no other than ideological reasons and there was no extra support put into it. So you had for a number of years kids coming in from small village schools being taught on the back of the school stage in corridors because they hadn't put the stuff in and that forged my real dislike of ideology.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're not talking the one that Thatcher faced. No. This is in the 70s. So this is the Heath government and then what consequently came out of all of that. And so I was at school with people whose dads worked down manton pit, which is the pit in Workshop. And they would say, well, my dad's on strike. He's got to be on strike. I mean, I said, what do you mean? He said, well, that's what Union says. And you've got to do. And it was like, it was a reign of terror. And one of the most profound memories, and I absolutely can see it now.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. Do you know what formed it? Well, both my parents are Tories, and you do pick stuff up from your parents, but I used to discuss politics. God, this sounds a bit sad, at the age of 11 at the kitchen table. I remember it quite distinctly. But remember Worksop Mining Town Miner Strike.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't want it to be made out as it was too violent. It was particularly violent after I left. My youngest brother became one of the best fighters in the school, but we moved swiftly on from that. I'm sure he'd be horrified at me saying that. But it's true. It was the sort of place where, you know, to survive, you had to use your fists. Now, I didn't. But I used, I think I used, I swear, my language is not good. And I think that was part of it. So I was determined I was going to carry on saying pass and bath and wouldn't give in to all of that. But I used to swear like a trooper, I think, instead, sort of kind of make up for it. And I think language was part of my defence. And I used to mess about quite a lot. And I was one of those that did sit at the back of the classroom and I did cause trouble and I shouldn't be proud of that, but that is a fact.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Obviously, and I just thought, sort of thought, sod this, I'm not going to change the way I speak. And stuff happened at school. I mean, there was time, I think, I suppose now you call it bullying, not about the way I spoke. I don't know if that amounts to, I don't care, but one year I had a bad year when I had a group of girls that were after me. And I remember my mother having to come to school to pick me up because I'm a bit worried that I'd get beaten up. And I just think I had that sort of attitude. And I've always supposed had a bit of an attitude. I don't like authority. I am not good with authority, which used to be not a great place to be in when you're at the criminal bar and you're trying to be in front of judges. I used to drive a lot of judges around the bend. I'm not good at that sort of thing. But my client's interest was always the most important thing. And it's a bit like, you know, I am now as a member of parliament. It's my constituents' interests that actually are more important than anything else.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I went to the Heartland Grammar School in Workshop, and I said, Could you pass the salt by way of example? And I would get, as you can imagine, hugely teased, hugely, who pass the salt? Ooh, pass the salt. And I just sort of thought, sod this, I'm not going to change the way I speak”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, not at school, no. But there were all sorts of shenanigans that used to go on at school. And actually, after I left, the year after I left, I had to bring a police officer in at break time because there were so many fights being carried out in the playground. And you have to remember this. No, I wasn't. Why were you carrying? No, actually, because the way I speak, I have always had this accent. And my accent is exactly the same as both my parents.”
2018-02-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Anna Soubry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source