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Kit Malthouse

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“There is a kind of professional troll out there who's trying to steer things in a particular way, and we just need to calmly counteract that, point out what the plan is, recognize the worries and concerns of the British people as we have done on energy. And then I think we'll steer a steady course. Through difficult times”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't share that feel. I'll have to read his column so I haven't got to it yet. And he does write some pretty powerful stuff. You know, he's not... Put it this way he's not a writer who it's hard to discern his opinions, right? So I'll have to have a look. Look, I am surprised. I mean, one of the things I have to say, Nick, since I got involved in politics that has become a big influence, I think is social media, right? And it's increased the velocity of decision making, it's increased the kind of sense of outrage out there. And I do worry that we get ourselves into a kind of psychological doom loop. I know from my point of view as a long time ago economics graduate, a business person, an accountant, all the rest of it, 80% of economics is psychology. And if these, it is possible to talk yourself into a problem, and I think we need now to talk positively and for people to understand the plan, but”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On the Treasury side, I mean, one of the things that was said on the leadership campaign was about breaking this consensus. So you'd have to ask them questions about that. I would say that over my whatever it is, 20-odd years now, whether it's at Westminster Council, at City Hall, and then in various ministerial jobs, I very rarely met officials who are obstructive or difficult. As I say, most of them want to do a brilliant job. They just want clarity from politicians.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that's unfair, Nick, to be honest. I'm not aware that there's been an undermining of the Bank of India. If anything, I heard the Prime Minister saying this morning how important it is they remain independent.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It and you recognize the division between official and politician, then they generally brigade themselves for success. The flip side of it that I also saw kind of where organizational dysfunction appears. So the cabinet office had, I think, 42 business units become a bit of a where you put things where you can't find a home for them. So it became a bit incredible. I say that those are the two lessons from the summer the ability of the civil service to deliver when you give them a clear direction and you imbue them with the idea that they can succeed. But at the same time, the kind of big structural organizational problems that we have in a complicated democracy.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's a really good question. I mean, what I saw in that brief period, it was kind of six weeks, but a lot happened. We had from heat wave, wildfires. We had the energy protesters and we were getting ready for a tricky winter. And I guess I saw a couple of things which indicated to it's actually a lesson that I've learned throughout my now long career in politics. Some may say too long, which is that the civil service officials, when they really want to be, can be brilliant. I mean, the cabinet office has some really fantastic people at its heart who did a brilliant job on the stuff we saw over the summer and actually, don't forget the cabinet office sits at the heart of what we've just been through, the whole state funeral kind of 10-day period, just an extraordinary ability to plan and execute. And if you give them clear decisions and you are quick about it,”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, do you know what? I forget who it was. There was an American politician who said there's no end to what you can achieve in politics if you're not interested in who gets the credit. And to be honest with you, I've always been a very kind of mission-focused person. I've never really been that interested in the celebrity side of politics. To me, it's about the mission.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was a short period till they changed the rules on us, shall we say, more specialist candidates. They changed the rules on us. And so me, James Cleverly, others decided to go. Look, if you're not in politics to kind of push your own view, that you come in with strong convictions that you want to try and influence the path of events, then you're in the wrong sort of game, really. But you see, I...”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I don't think so, Nick, to be honest with you. I mean, I learnt at City Hall that Boris Johnson was a kind of very potent political force, extraordinary personality that British people found attractive. And I felt when he became Prime Minister that we would see that success that he'd had at City Hall for eight years in a city which demographically people said we could never win. And then he won twice. And then similarly in a referendum, which they said would never win. And he was instrumental in that victory too. So I had assumed that it would continue. But a combination of events meant that wasn't to be.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And we have elections every four years, and people get turned over and don't. Let's just hope we have a period of calm and stability now, particularly in education, because as I say, the progress, whatever the number of people who've been involved from Michael Go through Justine Greening, through Nikki Morgan, through all those people, right, we've built successfully a real story of progress. And I don't think, to be honest with you, the country talks about that enough. Our schools are in a much better place than they were a decade ago. You know, that sense of progress and success is something that we have to now imbue across the whole system.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a really good question. I mean, look, it's obviously less than optimal. It's absolutely true. And in one of my previous jobs, I was housing minister for a year, and I think I was something like the 17th Housing Minister in 18 years. And so it is a problem. Having said that, we have just had come through a period of longevity. So I was policing minister for three and a half years, which enabled me to embed and progress policies as well. We have these moments in our history where things become volatile right it's the stuff of your profession right that's what you wait for and it's the it's the moment when it becomes interesting and exciting where citizens”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The basic thinking is that we need to create a kind of Lawyer, but you know, we need to recognize that some of the most important people in this country are the people who keep the show on the road, right? So for me, in the middle of winter, the guy who's coming to fix my central heating is the most important person in the country. And it's that kind of sense of esteem that will steer as many young people into the right choice for them for the future so that every young person feels that they get a great education. They then get great options that fit their skills, abilities, interests, all the rest of it, and that will build them towards a great career for the future. Now, in the past, we've always had a slightly first tier, second tier approach to these things. We're trying very much to reverse that because we think there are a huge swathe of young people who will benefit from that kind of vocational education and will in time see that it is aspirational, it brings the kind of progress that they're looking at.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I believe in a system where parents need to be able to make the best choices for their children and where everybody has, everywhere in the country has access to a really brilliant school.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I generally don't talk about my family, they're not part of my political life, they don't appear in photos, I'm not part of that kind of thing, but my kids, all my kids have been to a mixture of both. And we make personal choices ourselves.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's why I was a saying. We have to have a conversation about what people actually want, what they're kind of looking for when they say I want a grammar school, right? Is that about actually a school called a grammar? Is it about a political ethos, a certain type of education? Now, Catherine has started this fantastic school, as you know, in North London, which is, to be honest with you, if you ever want cheering up, it's worth looking at her Twitter feed on Results Day, right? She posted videos of various of her pupils getting their results, and it's really heartwarming stuff, right? And every parent wants that for their children. That sense of aspiration, high expectation, high standards. And that's what we need to try and address.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, maybe new ones, it might be expanded ones, and we'll be doing work on that with Prime Minister and with colleagues about what that policy might look like as we go forward. But the key thing is whatever we do on grammar schools is that our aspiration is that we've got a whole network now of brilliant schools across the country, right? As I said, there's been a real revolution. The great success story of the last 10 or 15 years in this country has been our education system. But we now need to kind of complete that process and make sure that every school comes up to the standard of the best. And that means working hand in hand.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“for the Prime Minister has made this pledge during the leadership election and she's very keen to see it through and so we'll be doing a lot of work in this area to understand what it is parents want because whatever the arguments are there's a strong desire in some parts of the country for parents to have that choice that that's where they want to send their children”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, so there's a prime example, right? So we had a really good and productive conversation with colleagues in the Treasury about the impact of energy pricing on schools. They were then included in the energy support mechanism that's being put out now. And in particular, we said, look, we've got a lot of schools that are on heating oil, rural schools still. Can we include them? Actually, great. We still got, I think, one or two schools on coal, would you believe? They'll be halfway up a mountain somewhere, right? So we're able to have those conversations, recognizing that a critical priority for the government is education in its widest sense and childcare in its widest sense. And a key part of our growth strategy is to make sure that the young people that we're turning out have the skills and abilities and the future that they want everywhere across the whole of the United Kingdom.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To bring those who aren't up to the level of the best forward, and we need to do that quickly because that's fundamentally what the British people want.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, no, look, we have to have a conversation with Treasury colleagues about what we and what the Prime Minister want to achieve and then how we pay for it. Now, I can't do my budget negotiations here on in, right? But the education in this country over the last 10 years or so has been an enormous success, right? Schools are in a much better place than they were. We're moving up the international ranking tables quite rapidly, numerously literacy is all in a good place. We've just had, you know, in the spending review, a good settlement, four billion more going into schools. We've got 9% junior teachers and aspiration to get them to 30,000 starting salaries. So there's lots of good news about schools. And to maintain that progress, we need to have a conversation with Treasury colleagues. So what I'll be fighting for is not necessarily money, but progress is faster progress because while we've had huge improvement across schools, we now need...”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know because the one thing we do know about education is that resources and capacity matter. It's not the be all and end all. In the end, it's the teacher that stands in front of the class that is the most important influence on outcomes. But when you're looking at a pattern of spending across the whole of an organization, whether it's a council or a city hall or whether it's a government, you have to do it within a framework of priorities. And those priorities have to match with what's important for people that you serve. And certainly that's what we tried to do at Westminster Council. It's definitely what we try to do at City Hall under Boris. And I think that's, I'm confident that's what the Prime Minister will try and do. So that means there'll be some areas that are important, like defence, which has made pledges, you know, education is critically important to her. It's the future of our country.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Performance, right? And not just performance on the stuff that's easy, but the hard stuff like social care and social services, right? So Westminster City Council was top of the league table for things like children's services, really important risk managing stuff. And that taught me an enormous...”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're absolutely right. Westminster Council at the time was a kind of remarkable breeding ground, I think, for politicians. And there were a number of Westminster Council alumni in the House now. Me, Greg Clark, we did have Nick Bowles before he defects all that because of Nikki Aitkin, Ed Arga. There's quite a few. So you'd come out in the Lords previously an MEP. You're absolutely right. It was a great lesson in what can be achieved. And the trick we set ourselves under the late, great Simon Milton as leader was to pull off the impossible, which was to have the lowest council tax in the country and be top of the local government league tables, the Blairite local government league tables, and we managed to do it.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, and particularly when you're running your own business and can't rely on the paycheck coming in every month, right? That is a psychology that we have to grasp if we're going to help more people do more of that to build those businesses that will bring the growth we need.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I am. I think there are a few of us who've been involved in business, but not as many as you might like. And certainly, you know, I'm not shy about my business failures, absolutely not, because I think you're totally right. I learnt a huge amount from them. And you've got to keep trying and then you eventually succeed. I mean, one of the things about if you look at entrepreneurs, the most successful ones are the ones who have had misfires in their records and eventually get it right. And so I think that's absolutely right. And changing that culture to allow people to try and take risk, recognizing that you are taking risk when you start a business is critical. And also, to be honest with you, a reflection in the House of Commons about business or a sense of the House of Commons about business that it is actually bloody hard. It is really hard work to start a business. It's stressful. It's difficult. It takes time, sweat, money. Your whole family very often put on the line.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, well, I recruited a good management team from another airline that had been taken over. And we kind of ran it, we tried to raise money and get it going, but I'm afraid it didn't fly.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Liverpool, Norwich, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow. You couldn't get direct trains. It didn't really work. And in the end, you know, I mean, the business didn't take off, forgive the pun.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was that right? Oh, yeah. So as an entrepreneur, you have to live with things that don't work. Tell me about pop. So I trained as a chartered accountant and I wasn't a brilliant accountant. So I think everybody there would admit. And so I resigned the day I qualified and decided that I had to do my own thing. And so I did go into business and over the years have tried to start various business. Hop was essentially a domestic low-cost airline. I got very frustrated with the fact that our travel system, our network, was very radial from London effectively. So if you wanted to go from Norwich to Liverpool, you had to go via London. And that seemed crazy to me. So it was in the days of the early days of low costs. The idea was we'd have a low cost aircraft carrying 90-odd passengers that would flip between these towns.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it was actually. So when I got to university, I sort of got involved with the conservative group there. And in fact, the very first election that I worked on was the 1987 election when there was a young Conservative MP in Darlington called Michael Fallon. We still hold Darlington, we hold Darlington now, right? But we held it then. And I went and did some campaigning for him. And that sort of started me on the road, I guess, to being politically active.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was a very robust time, right? Student politics then was quite red in tooth and claw, and there was a lot of whining each other up went on. And so, you know, I actually worked on the Corinthian newspaper as a features editor for a bit. I read various newspapers, but it was designed to be a bit of a rag to spark controversy. And so we wrote ridiculous things all the time.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, no, this letter talk about offence archaeology 34 years ago. Basically, at the time, it was Sort of a satirical letter designed to kind of wind up the unilebed of activism. And we spent a lot of time winding each other up essentially. It has to be seen in that tone is a sort of idiotic letter written to poke fun at the Labour Club. And we're not dissimilar generations. You remember what it was like in the late 80s at the time. So I'm sure they wrote just as rude letters about us.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, well, the Liverpool College at the time was, I would call it, let's say, an eccentric school, a hangover of Liverpool's past, a lot of sport, quite a lot of religion. And we were taught by fantastic card of mainly men who were all in their kind of 50s, some of who obviously given the time, had kind of as young men had fought in the war. And it was a kind of dusty, incredibly enjoyable backwater, I have to say. I mean, it was fun at school. We had fun. Do you have much?”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, there's definitely a bit of that. There was definitely if you were a rebellious teenager in Liverpool, you were a conservative. That's for sure.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's an interesting question. Look, so I was born to a pair of penniless students, both my parents first in their family to go to university. Both came from modest backgrounds in Yorkshire. I'm actually genetically a Yorkshireman. And, you know, they built a life in Liverpool, which was prosperous. My dad started business and built it up. My mum worked very hard to become a lawyer. They are prime examples of the value of kind of good education and hard work. And they built a life for me and my sisters, which was a good one.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It made me think that there must be a better way. There must be a better way. And it coincided with a conservative government nationally who, as far as I could see, and I know there are lots of people who felt that what that government did was a negative for the city, but as far as I could see, they were kicking indoors for people like me, little boys from South Liverpool, basically saying you can be whatever you want.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, Steve McPartner, there's lots of us now. I think somebody said to me the other day there are more scouseborn Tories now than there are Labour. And I definitely think that the atmosphere in the city during the 1970s and 80s kind of radicalized the generation of young people to become conservatives. We all watched as the hard left under Derek Hatton essentially destroyed the city and we got into the what did the Neil Kenneth call it in that famous which is a grotesque chaos is what he described Liverpool as at the time.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“change look like so there's a whole kind of LEGO set of pieces that need to be slotted together to get us where we need to be and we've made I think at the right start this volatility isn't helpful we'll have to move to deal with that and I know the Prime Minister and Chancellor will be focused on that but let's turn”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, as I say, during the leadership election, the Prime Minister advertised very clearly the set of problems that she wanted to address and how she was going to address them. She's moved extremely quickly to do that, not least, as I say, on the fuel intervention, to deal with this massive anxiety that people were feeling. But she did also say that we're in for a challenging period, right? We have got a global fight against inflation. It was always going to be difficult. I spent, as you said in the preamble, the summer at the cabinet office getting ready for some of those difficulties. And I think we're just going to have to iterate as we go to get everybody through the next few months in good shape. And there are lots of areas where pressure is being felt, particularly by families. So, for example, one of the conversations we're having with the Prime Minister is around childcare. She's advertised, you know, we need to do something about childcare because there are too many families who can't access it in a way they want to. What does that mean?”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, look, don't get me wrong, it is unhelpful, and I understand that it's worrying and caused a lot of anxiety for people. And bank and treasury will work together to get on top of that issue.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dad's army and say, Don't panic. No, I think that's totally unfanic. I mean, the Prime Minister moved within seven days of becoming leader to deal with the energy problem, right? To make sure that people were reassured that their energy bills weren't going to bust the family budget. And that is a huge intervention that's been made. It's been welcomed across the board, not just for families, but for those small businesses who were seeing more and more stories coming through. I mean, even in my own constituency, alarming stories about bills coming through for pubs and restaurants and shops, right? So this was a real source of fear and anxiety, which had to be addressed early. And so her stepping forward into that, I think, was totally addressing that. And of course, there's all”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I've spent my entire political career and it's now quite long, very, very focused on the spending side of the revenue account. Because A, we have a moral obligation to make sure that we're not wasting any money. And I know politicians always say that, but in truth we do. And we have to constantly question what we're doing and kind of trim the sails of the boat to make sure that we're as efficient as possible. But also we need to do our best to leave as much money in the pockets of the people we serve as we possibly can because they are fundamentally the people who create wealth and create growth and provide intergenerational progress through building and sort of intergenerational balance sheet, if you like. And if the public sector comes to dominate the economy too much, I do believe that it crowds out private sector activity. Now, if we've had a problem with growth in this country over the last few years, which we have, it's been pretty anemic, a focus on private sector enterprise.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Reporting is rubbish, though, which I know you're not doing if you look. I mean, if you look back at my record, I've always been a kind of low tax Tory. I do believe that strongly that giving people autonomy in their life also means autonomy over their finances to make choices for themselves and for their families. And, you know, in a way, if I'm also a capitalist, I want people to participate in capitalism, and that means we need to leave them with money so that they can invest and build asset bases for themselves. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that I'm very much aligned on the policy that the Prime Minister is promoting.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, I obviously can't comment on cabinet. You'll have to see the minutes when they emerge in now 20 years. We've shortened it from 30 years, so you don't have long to wait. You can tell us.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I do, yes. I mean, obviously, the plan is growth, right? We've talked for years in this country about the productivity problem. And, you know, in fact, if you look back on the Treasury Select Committee and on the back benches, I was talking about dynamic capital, the idea that we're not doing enough investment in this country, we're not growing new businesses fast enough, all that kind of stuff.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you would like to think, wouldn't you, that Conservative Party in charge, and I speak as a chartered accountant, that would be a given. And maybe that's one of the reasons why we're surprised that people are surprised. It is a given that our job is to make the books balance. And, you know, I'm sure that's what the Treasury team will lay out in the weeks to come. It's important now at this period of volatility that the bank and the Treasury stick close together and they seem to be doing that, which is great. I'm sure, you know, it's not my department, but I'm sure Treasury will be explaining in the days and weeks to come what the plan is.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We Look, when I was in the backbench on the Treasury Select Committee, I used to complain about the fact that we had too many fiscal events, but times change. And when you're in a situation of volatility like that, it's critical. But, you know, Chris Philt, Chief Secretary was out this morning on the radio saying, you know, fiscal rectitude and discipline still remains at the heart of what we want to do. It's a very important message for the market and the world to understand. But, you know, if you look at some of the stuff that was announced last Friday, particularly the technical word is supply side, but actually its measures to make it easier for people to go to work, easier to make wealth, easier to save money, easier to spend money, all those kind of things are coming down the track over the next few weeks. And I'm hopeful that all of that will hang together as a package, that people can see what the plan is. And the Prime Minister is somebody who very definitely has a plan.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Be fair, I think there was a sense of a need of urgency to address the very real anxiety in the British people about the cost of living crisis, particularly with energy. And she had said she would move quickly to deal with that, which is what she did. Obviously, I think Kwasi's announce now he's going to do another wider statement at the end of November, which we'll talk about the wider fiscal environment.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And as far as I can see, she's moved extremely swiftly to fulfil some of the pledges that she made during the leadership election campaign. Maybe there wasn't picked up enough, but certainly she said she was going to move within seven days. And that's what she did. So while obviously the market reaction is something that we have to pay attention to and understand and address, and I know that the Treasury and Bank of India working closely together, yeah, I remain surprised that people are surprised.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That she felt a strong need to respond frankly to a lot of the calls from across the spectrum about issues with productivity, growth, you know, the nature of our economy. And so her stepping into that, particularly with an energy crisis, seems to have taken a lot of people by surprise, and I'm a bit perplexed by that.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Has been Challenging week, as they say. I think that's the euphemism that politicians use. But hopefully things will settle, although I have to say, it comes. I mean, I got elected in 2015, and it's been a pretty much a roller coaster ride since 2016. So leadership elections, general elections, referendums, pandemics, wars, it's been a bit of a roller coaster. So I sort of feel a bit seasoned towards it. And to be honest with you, Nick, I find myself a bit surprised that people are surprised because obviously the Prime Minister advertised during the leadership election that change was coming.”
2022-09-30 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Kit Malthouse One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source