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David Frost

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first: 2022-10-21
most recent: 2022-10-21
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Well, I quit over what at the time looked like the rush back down into lockdown and vaccine passports and so on which has all now been kind of forgotten. But I think it's not so much that he's a convinced large government person. It's maybe he likes to kind of avoid difficult choices. And there are definitely going to be some difficult choices coming.”
2022-10-21 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The David Frost One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there are different kinds of Brexteer Torres, but the one thing they all have in common is thinking Brexit is good thing because it restores national control and democracy, and democracy enables you to have these sort of arguments, and the Conservative Party has always been a broad church. I think it's a bit simplistic to say he's a high spend, high tax person. I don't really think he's a high-tax person. He certainly said things that make clear he isn't. Maybe he is somebody who isn't.”
2022-10-21 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The David Frost One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, people can't, by the time they reach his age, my age, you know, basically people have foundered their ideas and the way they work. And I agree, you can't expect change. But what I think you could expect, and this is going to be one of the issues, you know, can people be self-aware about their weaknesses, understand what they're naturally good at and where they need help, and get people to do the things that they don't necessarily feel they're good at themselves? And that's what we didn't quite see, I think.”
2022-10-21 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The David Frost One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I think the problem was the sense of sort of confusion and chaos that surrounded him. I think Partygate was a kind of special moment, if you like, you know, a very unhappy one, but it was a product of an extraordinary period. I think what people will probably want to see is a sense that he can run a government, he can organize things, he has a set of things he wants to deliver, can take decisions, can get things to happen. And I think that was at the root of some of the problems people had.”
2022-10-21 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The David Frost One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Boris's remarkable guy, and he can do things that other people can't. So I don't find it at all surprising that we're getting this sort of noise about will he come back? Could he do the job? I think the party needs to think quite hard before it kind of goes down this road. You know, who knows, it's not really for me to say, but there was a reason why he left office and there's a reason why he was so successful in office. And they've got to work out which of those is going to be the most important for them.”
2022-10-21 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The David Frost One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source