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Matt Hancock

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first: 2022-02-28
most recent: 2022-02-28
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“Okay, so let's park the sort of Oxbridge debate. That's the sort of, and that debate will go on for as long as those universities are preeminent, I imagine. I think the most important thing.”
2022-02-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so I think there's a few bits. Let's park the Oxford point because actually if we oxford and Cambridge and the other top universities get it right. Then actually they are great meritocratic levelers because the thing that Oxford really did for me not only taught me how to read and write, but it also took a provincial boy from Cheshire And put him into exactly the group that you describe, right? So I was from a very much a middle class background. But if those top universities get their selection right, who they choose, and if they get the support right so that people from your sort of background feel encouraged and drawn towards them and then supported once you get there, then they can be great levelers.”
2022-02-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, in a way, you know That is part of it. You know that if you're going to make a big decision that affects lots of people's lives, some people are going to like it and some people aren't. That isn't what got me into politics. What got me into politics was the observation that that's where the big decisions are made. And quite rightly in a democracy, the big calls in economics to stop other people going through the same experience that I did as an early teenager with my parents' business where it almost went bust for something completely outside their control. And that's what drove me. And the combination of the interest, you know, because it's very interesting politics. And the mission got me there.”
2022-02-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So thanks. But it's true, right? And my experience as health secretary is you get some people love you and some people hate you, right? I was on the tube and I never know what how it's going to be when they come up and see me. So I was on the tube last night and some enormous guy in a heavy metal t-shirt, long hair comes up to me and I'm like, how's this going to go? And he said, I just want to say thanks I got my vaccines'cause of you and I'll never forget it. I was like, oh, well, that went, that could have gone worse. And so, and obviously not every interaction is as cheerful, to put it diplomatically.”
2022-02-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I was aspiring to become an entrepreneur. So I actually, I almost did economics and management at Oxford. And then somebody told me it was easiest to get into PPE than economics and management. And that sounded close enough to what I wanted to do. So that's why I ended up doing it.”
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“By the end of the week, then the company was going under eventually on the Wednesday or the Thursday the check arrived and the business was saved and it went on to prosper. But that made me ask this question you know how come a perfectly good business employing a load of people who are working incredibly hard how can that go bust or be at risk of going bust for something completely outside of their control and the sort of sense of injustice in that made me then ask how does the economy work? And that's what led me to take an interest in economics which I had a real affinity with. I loved it as an A-levels subject and that so that's what led me to PPE.”
2022-02-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I thought it was just the most interesting thing to do. I actually got into it through the economics. So I studied economics A level because I was really interested in business. And what happened was this that when I was a teenager in the early nineties, my mom's business nearly went bust. And we had a moment when we had this major client, themselves was struggling in the recession in the early 90s and couldn't pay their bills. So it was a classic late payment cash crunch for a small business. We knew that if we didn't get this check,”
2022-02-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A bit, I wouldn't say that was the main thing. But yeah, people, it was tough. People were tough on me. And I'm also quite sort of, you know. Self confident and exuberant, and that sometimes has robbed people up the wrong way, especially when you're the little guy at school. So I think I'm sure that part of the sort of the drive that I have comes from the fact that I found myself age 10 suddenly in a very Tough environment”
2022-02-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the biggest things that happened to me was that after primary school, primary school is in this lovely, very rural Cheshire. Primary school, a very, very straightforward small, warm, and then at the age of 10, they put me in for the, or I was asked if I wanted to put go in for the exam for the local independent school a year early. This was probably one of the biggest things that happened in my childhood because I went and did the exam and I got through and I went to school. So I went to secondary school a year early. Suddenly I went from being finding it all pretty straightforward to really having to struggle to keep up, really having to work hard and both socially and academically suddenly I was in this with a group, a big group of people who were all a year ahead of me and combine that with my sort of my mother's worth ethic”
2022-02-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Complicated because my parents separated when I was two, and I effectively grew up with four parents, so the both of them happily remarried before I can really remember. So it was complicated in the way that lots of modern families are complicated, and I have a half-brother, have stepbrothers and sisters, but it was also very loving. that love and support from four parents rather than the normal two.”
2022-02-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I love your podcast One of the reasons I love it is because I think what you manage to do is you manage to get people to be really, really honest about themselves. One of the things I admire about the podcast is that it's important that we have a space where people can talk about where things go well and where people have failed and what they've learned from that. And you're so sort of brutally honest with yourself about it and you really put that on the line. And that in turn gets it out of other people. And, you know, I've been through this extraordinary experience of being the health secretary in the pandemic. There's a lot of things that I've learned through that and learned about myself. And I want to be able to articulate how I saw it, if you like. I just think that it's just one of the most self-aware podcasts that I've listened to.”
2022-02-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There were some mistakes that we made in terms of the measures. They were brought in. Well, now you see, Stephen, you're getting into gotcha questions.”
2022-02-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Matt Hancock: Opens Up About His Affair, Mistakes & The Pandemic · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT