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Jake Berry

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first: 2020-12-18
most recent: 2020-12-18
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“Well, I have got something to fear. I've got to fear my employers. And my employers are the people of Rosndall and Darwin. And I should always be in fear of them having a bit of a marginal seat. But I've certainly got nothing to lose. I'm fighting for what I believe in. By the way, I happen to think that we're pushing on an open door. I think this government does have an exciting vision for the north of England. I think it's always the job of backbenchers to make sure that they don't just become a little bit forgetful. about the promises we made at General Elections.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, he absolutely. We need him to be as radical as Margaret Thatcher was when she had similar size majorities. You know, the biggest danger, I think, for this government is we're 10 years into a conservative government people say, well, one bit of it was a coalition. public doesn't buy that we've had 10 years of the Tories and if we don't regain that spirit of radicalism you know that vava voom that we had when we came into office I think people might say It's time to give the others a go. Only Boris Johnson has the ability to make a fourth term look like a first term and that's what he needs to do across the North of England, not just so we win the next election, but to actually make sure that we genuinely transform the lives of the people who we work for.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think it's a bit of an inability to keep my mouth shut. People always say what they want politicians to be is absolutely truthful. But in fact, that itself is a lie. What they want politicians to be is absolutely tactful and truthful, maybe, but tactful 101. And I often leave the tact behind.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My wife often says to me when we're going somewhere, she says, don't get in the steamroller. So maybe I'm not. Maybe I was driving the steamroller. I've never really known him to be particularly uncomfortable with what I've been saying, but I haven't often paused to find out if he is or not.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think when you reach great positions of power like the Prime Minister, I remain a huge fan of does you no harm occasionally to have people who are prepared really directly to you, really frankly, people with passion who are fighting for what they believe. And he has, and I'm sure always will, welcome that. And to be honest here, I think it helps keep him on track.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He may be on a diet, but I'm not. Anyone who's seen me recently will know that it's a tea is creeping in. Yeah, I mean, I think I'm not personally pursuing a cheese ban or a bread ban or an egg ban or whatever. I just thought it was a reasonable precaution to take it. And of course, it was the right thing to do. Because as I left the meeting, which was robust in its tone, I did look over my shoulder and say, and next time at least have the decency to provide a bloody butty.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I don't read the Financial Times. It's behind a paywall. I'm too tight. I'm living up to my northern stereotype. I'm not paying whatever it is, 50p to read articles that are probably made up about myself. I learned a long time ago, but don't believe anything in the press that's written about you, good or bad, and especially not when people are tipping you for jobs in government.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't accept the premise that it would destroy the job, so I think we have a huge opportunity to rebuild large parts of our industrial base across the north of England, but I'm not suggesting that people start going working in coal mines or coking plants. But if you take the site of the Battle of Orgreave just outside Sheffield, where the Orgreave Coking Plant once was, you now have McLaren sports cars being built. We don't want dirty industrial jobs in the north. We want high-tech, clean, green, highly paid and secure jobs. And that is what I think we can deliver after Britain leaves the European Union deal or no deal. That needs to be the government's plan.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was, but they are wrong if they say that the Conservatives didn't turn Liverpool around from the restoration of the Albert Dark, the Garden Festival, all of those things. It took a conservative government to pull Liverpool up and make sure that we can be the great city that it is today. If you visit that city, as I know you do occasionally, and I would encourage all of your listeners to do so, go and look at those buildings at the pier head. And you will see that the plain side of those buildings faces into the city. The beauty faces out to sea. Liverpool was the first global city. It has global and international trade in its DNA. What I am advocating is when we leave the European Union, let's make sure that we make the north of England and the whole country, but particularly the north, which is the land of opportunity in terms of financial and industrial development.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think sort of thinking Liverpool got a raw deal in the 1980s isn't sort of a way of being brought up. If you live there, you could see it. You could walk down. I remember visiting London with my mum and being amazed that there were no bombsights left in London, in the centre of Liverpool when I was a young lad. There were most of the car parks in the city centre were former bombsites that hadn't been rebuilt since the Second World War. You could see the Albert Dock now a UNESCO grade one World Heritage site, the first tate gallery outside the capital when I was growing up all the docks were full of rubbish. Every window was smashed. The roof was caved in. So the north was left behind. It wasn't a belief. I just saw it every single day with my own eyes. And it took, of course, behind many...”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They were very upset with your ballot. I'm rather happy now they've heard of me. They might invite me to one of their performances. We'll have to wait and see. But, you know, Of the UK in my own constituency of Rosendell and Darwin, over 20% of the population work in manufacturing. We like manufacturing, not because we like making things, although we do quite like making things, it's because we know and understand that they are highly paid secure jobs. It's not that we want to work in factories, that we want good jobs and a great way of bringing more of those good jobs is to build more factories. And if we really believe in this global Britain, as you know, this government talks about, we should be saying we don't just want new factories making things that we sell in the UK, we want to put the north of England in the vanguard of the green industrial revolution. We should be building solar panels in the north that are sold to America.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Number one, just I wouldn't like you to misquote me. What I said is that for many of us on local football club will be as important a cultural institution as the ballet may be to someone who lives in London. It's sort of widely misreported, but it's true. I mean, you know, guess what? If you live in Accrington or you live in Liverpool or Heaven for Fend, you live in Cheshire, Manchester United, Liverpool FC or Acklington Stanley probably will be your most important cultural institution. Of course, many of these smaller clubs like Acklington Stanley do so much more than football. They do the food bank. They do the kids clubs in the holidays. And we as a government should have a plan to support these institutions. It's not good enough, frankly, to say we've got cash to support these brilliant things like the Northern Ballet, which, by the way, I'm a huge fan of both of”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Country that loads the dice against the north of England. I'll let you into a little secret. I love factories. I am so sad that I have actually visited factories as a tourist. I'm not quite in the Jeremy Corbyn collector of manhole covers territory, but I am in the Jake Berry visitor of factories. I want to see us build more beautiful factories across the north of England. That means ripping up planning because we can't have a situation where it takes five years to get the permissions to build a factory. It means doing it in six months. It means creating the North as a global landing pad for investment so businesses like Dong Energy will build their wind turbine blade manufacturing site in the north of England. That is the sort of ambition we need to have, not incremental government.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Leveling up is a brilliant election slogan because it frankly means everything to everyone, doesn't it? If you want your local school to get that, we're going to level up your school. If you want your bus service to get better, we're going to level up your bus service. What I think our plan needs to be is to create a sort of radical free market growing economy that has high value jobs. If you take what we refer to in government as the green industrial revolution and these green collar jobs, whether that be building a wind turbine or being deployed to put smart meters into people's homes, we get that's going to be a career, a lifetime's career. If you learn how to build a wind turbine, you'll have 10 years building them, 20 years running them, and 10 years decommissioning you. That's your entire career in a highly paid technical, secure job. And we just want more of those across the north. And frankly, we have a system in the...”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To change where I live, and if we think, if we truly think that a little bit of money sprinkled in these communities is going to cut it with these voters, then we are going to be very, very, very disappointed at the next general election. We need to affect real change to people's lives and we need to have a program to do that. No one expects everything to be done by May 2024 if that's the date, but they expect to be on a road that they can look at and say, right, things for me and my family are going to get better.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think that's how we're putting it. I don't think that small incremental changes are going to cut it with the Northern voter. I think they have radically done something really different. It actually started in 2016. When I was going around to all people during the referendum, I backed the Remain side. And I was saying, look, we don't know what impact this is going to have on the high value manufacturing jobs in the north of England. And loads of the voters saying to me, I don't really care because My life isn't where I want it to be anyway. So I'm just going to roll the dice and back Brexit anyway because things can only get better. Sort of repeated that at the 2019 general election. They've had years of labour dominated councils, Labour members of parliament and things had not improved. We said, look, we'll give the other guys a chance. They're going to deliver a Brexit that we voted for. But more importantly than that, they're going to...”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“North of England compared to the richest area of the south of England, you already have a nearly 10 year life expectancy differential. We've done all of these things and I support what the government's done. We've done all of the, you know, taken all of these huge hits to our economy, huge personal sacrifice, while at the same time we're prepared to live in a country where your life expectancy is determined by your postcode whether you live in the north or south. That is why it should be my mission and that is why it needs to be the biggest mission of this government.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I've concluded is that this is the thing I want to do and whether you do it from inside or outside government, you've got to be focused on delivery. And that's actually the power of coming together with colleagues. We are more powerful together than any individual MP or minister. I've said I've got one job left in me in politics and that's sort of to tackle this. And the reason it's so important, if you think of the huge sacrifice we've made as a nation to tackle this terrible COVID pandemic, spent a trillion pounds. People have lost their job. Companies have closed. That's a huge sacrifice. In many cases to help people live just for a few more years because it does, unfortunately target the elderly in our society. What are we doing about the north-south divide? Because if you live in one of the poorest areas,”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so two things I'd say about my brother's death. I mean, funnily enough, after he died, not related to the north, loads of people ask me if it had altered my opinion on assisted dying because he was relatively healthy just until the end, but he had a really tough week and a half or so in a hospice. And I regard it as one of the greatest privileges of my life to get the opportunity with his wife and with other family members to nursing through what was a really difficult time. And I know many of your listeners will have experienced there's nothing unique about me or my family or our situation, but I know many of your listeners will have been through that really difficult time, but that really changed me. One of the things that sort of reinvigorated me.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're not the person you were when you came into politics. So I've rediscovered my zeal, I've rediscovered my mission, and my mission is really to fight for the north, to drive through this leveling up agenda, and make sure that all of my new brilliant colleagues can come together and work together for what we collectively believe and make sure that we deliver for the people we work for.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it has been, but what I'd say about lockdown is because of the trials and tribulations, which are no better or worse than other families have been through, as a politician, and this is political thinking, how did it alter my thinking? Well, I came out of it rewired. And in fact, lots of the ambitions I'd had, lots of the things that had seemed so important, the things I really wanted to do, just sort of sank away into the background. just really came out of it having rediscovered my mission. And of course, when you've been a government minister, junior and relatively senior, everything's a compromise. Every single day you come home from the office, you've left a little bit of yourself there. And you come home one day.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“us as a couple or even me as a politician. So we've spoken about it. We're not really anything more about it. People do ask about it. But it was really, really a good opportunity to get out what's been a difficult time for all of us. But what was really touching and particularly in relation to postnatal depression was the number of people who got in touch through my MP's email, which is widely available on the internet, to say thank you. It kind of made it okay with you two talking about it for me to go and talk to my husband about this or tell work that I'd been through this really difficult time and that made the decision we made. It just made it feel like the right decision. It's something that people should be frank about and talk about. And it's always a journey for couples and no one should have to face it on their own. It had been a journey for us as two individuals.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so it came at a time when my wife was suffering very badly from postnatal depression. We'd recently lost my brother and we found out my mother was terminal and after lockdown we decided to do an interview to talk about some of the things we've been through. It's no harder than what lots of other people have faced. And I thought she was very brave actually because as somebody who suffered badly from postnatal depression, she made the brave decisions to go out there and talk about it not so much to help us but to try and sort of get out there that it was okay. When we'd done the interview it was quite funny actually because you sort of contacted by newspapers and magazines and the New York Times were in touch to say come on talk about it but we kind of made the decision that we didn't want a really difficult year we'd had to define”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would or would not take this job? Well, this is the BBC come up, we've got to maintain some decoring. But look, loads of listeners will have been in a similar situation. You know, if you get offered a promotion or you have to move your job or move to a different part of the country, no man who wanted to survive more than the next two or three hours in his own household would say yes or no to that without consulting his other half or woman in that case, any of those consulting other half. It was the right call for me and for my family. It was a great opportunity. It just wasn't the right opportunity for me.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, she sort of leant forward, clipped the phone onto mute, and said, oh, you're not going to take it. And I said, no, I'm not. Or words to that effect. And, you know,”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're well briefed, but you're not quite as well brief as United States. So actually, we had three. I was having that conversation with the Prime Minister holding my wonderful daughter, who at the time was five days old. Look, I mean, it's great for colleagues and what have you. That is a brilliant job going and working in Foreign Office. Lots of my colleagues would sell their granny's dog or maybe even their granny to get it. It's just not the right job for me. The most important thing for me is to fight for what I believe in, to look after my family. And if being in government doesn't work for that, then being in government doesn't work.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wasn't for me. The most important thing in the world to me is my family and I talk to my wife about it. We made a joint decision on it, but I wouldn't put my career above my family. I don't know many people who would.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was doing the job I wanted to in government. It's a great privilege to have the opportunity to do it. I was offered another job by the Prime Minister. It was also a great privilege to go around the world and represent the government as one of his foreign office ministers, but it's not for me. The reason it's not for me is twofold. Number one, I want to fight for what I believe in. Being in government isn't everything to me. I'm not bothered about being, you know, the minister in the Department of Crayons. There are lots of people in government who the thing they really believe in is being in government. I believe in changing and advocating and pushing for what I believe in and being in the foreign office wasn't a space in which I could fight for this north-south divide agenda that I believe in. Number one, so it's the wrong job of me. And number two, look, you know, I have a family and taking on a job that involves being out of the country two or three weeks a month.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“These new conservative MPs to be as radical as they've been, and frankly, incremental sort of central government sort of a little bit of sprinkling of cash here and a little bit of more education spending there isn't going to cut it. We represent the radicals. And in order for us to continue to succeed, we have to be more radical than Margaret Thatcher was between the late 1970s and the 1990s. That is what our voters expect. And we know who we work for. And that's what we're going to work together to deliver.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I want to get things done. I actually always campaigned for these northern issues and I want to get things done. I still buy his vision and he's still a good personal friend of mine. No one should be surprised. Northern MPs have decided to come together in a trade union to use our collective muscle as you put it to get things done for our constituents. That's why we are here. I don't work for the Prime Minister. None of my colleagues work for the Prime Minister. We work for the people who sent us here. And what we have to remember, Nick, is that there was a huge political shift in the UK just over a year ago. I mean, I've never known so many grannies and granddads spinning in graves as when I was knocking on doors across the north of England in the last general election. And our voters have done something absolutely radical. They have voted conservative and they expect.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, you know, number one, he's a mate, and I stick by my mates. I think that's something that we all recognize, I'm sure we all stick by our mates. But he does undid have a compelling vision for the North. In fact, it's the stock that everyone bought in the 2019 general election. And the whole point of this new sort of red blue wall, whatever we want to call it, of brilliant conservative colleagues is the fact that we are here. We have been elected to deliver that exciting agenda that he set out. Of course, COVID's blown us off course, but we're saying, let's get back to it. This is what our people want. We want to deliver that exciting program.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think people have learned when you're almost 12 months into something, you know, you're a fellow northerner, you've got family up there, you'll taught your own family. The many people in the community I represent, they've learned to live with COVID. And while they might not understand that my new shii of the government rules, in fact, in many cases, I don't in parliament, we debated the 19th set of rules that applied to Bolton. I'm not sure what the people of Bolton have done to warrant such government attention. Many people have really learned to live with it. They're being careful and they should and try to follow the rules to try and keep people safe. But people are also starting to make their own decision about it. They're starting to make their own judgment as to risk, work, their children going to school. And I think that's a dangerous place for the government to be, which is why I've consistently called for simple, clear rules that put personal responsibility.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think hopefully we will have a normal question. I think the idea that people are sat in their homes wondering what the government will allow them to do for Christmas is, frankly, for the birds. I think for many people across the north of England, it sort of feels a bit like the Brexit debate we had when Theresa May was Prime Minister. We were talking about things here in Westminster, about Brexit deal, no deal, Theresa May's deal, and the public had stopped listening. That's where I think we're up to with COVID, particularly across the North, because for people like my constituents and people particularly in the northwest of England, next year we'll be approaching almost 12 months in lockdown with a tiny bit of time off for good behavior. I think that we need to get back to road mapping a route for people out of lockdown. There's of course the opportunity to deal with the vaccine, to talk to people about that.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think, unfortunately, given on the figures, as we see them this week, that it probably was inevitable. But what I'm really keen for the government to do is to show us a route out of lockdown. People who run businesses in Lancashire, all over this country are perfectly capable, as are members of the public, at looking at complicated data sets and spotting trends. So give us hope because ultimately our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and the government, I'm a member of parliament for, won the election on hope, showing a brighter future for the people across the north of England. But in truth, because of coronavirus, we are governing via fear. And of course, if we want people to drive forward, change the economy of the north of England, get to the other side of COVID, we need to inject hope again. Boris Johnson once famously accused of peddling optimism.”
2020-12-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jake Berry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source