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Nick Boles

lines on the record: 48
first: 2019-01-18
most recent: 2019-01-18
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I hope she'd do the same. I think she would do the same. I think she's a woman of great decency, duty, patriotism. She's old-fashioned in the best possible way.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have written in saying they're outraged by what I'm saying and want to deselect me. And the truth is that many of them used to belong to UKIP only about a year ago. They're entirely entitled to their view, and they're entitled to be members of the Conservative Party, and they're entitled to deselect me. But I am not going to change what I believe is in the interest of the”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Part of Brighton, where I first stood for Parliament because Brighton and Hove might have been very agreeable in some ways, but it wouldn't have challenged me to understand how other people see things and what people are comfortable with and what makes them frightened and whereas my constituency I'm constantly every single week confronted with people's viewing things totally different than the way they come across to me and I think it's been profoundly good for me but there is a limit to how much one is willing to change things that are fundamental just because a few people and it is a very few people you know I represent probably 80,000 people because there's about 70,000 voters and then there are of course people who are not yet of voting age and you know it's a hundred people in my local party who”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think that's fair, and Bruce Anderson would have spent a lot more time in places like Lagracho Club than me. But I don't think that's fair at all because I grew up entirely in a place not very different to the place I represent. It was the West Country, not Lincolnshire, but it was on a farm, it was, you know, going to church every Sunday. It was pretty traditional, pretty conservative, pretty rural. And that is my upbringing. And I'm very, very close to my family. So the truth is that I am, like all of us, a blend of things. I'm a blend of where I was born and the experiences I had in childhood with the person I have become. And I was saying earlier that however long my relationship with my constituency and my local party lasts, I will always be grateful for the fact that actually I was elected there and not in Hove in”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's what I think Ver said. I think it was already in it, but I think that we managed to contain it because, you know, partly because we'd been in outer power for so long that there was a hunger to get back into office, partly because of the financial crisis and the deficit sort of brought us all together in what we felt was a sort of mission of national salvation to stop our economy crashing, partly because people like Michael Gove, with his school reforms, gave us other purposes that it didn't matter whether you were very, very Eurosceptic or very, very Europhile that actually we all were inspired by the idea of raising school standards and setting school leaders free. And that unfortunately has sort of been lost because of the reference. And people's desire for particular kinds of Brexit.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's a fair question because I'm not going to challenge the premise because it has gone wrong. And I think that what went wrong perhaps was always there, but it was latent, which is that ideological obsession entered the bloodstream of the Conservative Party.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think that's necessary at all. Jacob Reese Mogg, I believe, on my way here, has said that even if the Prime Minister were to sign up to a compromise involving a customs union, that he would not vote against her in a no confidence motion. And to those of my association who were worried about my threat to resign the whip, they were worried that I was threatening to vote no confidence in the government, or I would point to them is the fact that I voted for the government. And I've come up with another way of achieving the end that I seek. So I think that, you know, people can declare that they can't swallow things, but we all know that there'd be no bigger disaster than to have a Jeremy Corbyn government.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I don't think that really works because the negotiations with the EU, it's quite clear. The negotiations on the withdrawal agreement, on the legal contract of withdrawal, are over. We either sign it or we don't. They've also made clear, not least in the last day, they've reiterated, that a renegotiation of the political declaration on the future relationship is totally up for grabs. practically inviting us to come in and write a new political declaration and no deal or being on the table or off the table won't make a blind bit of difference to that.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, I think the Chancellor Atten is quite happy that this amendment. And it is really important, this, I know it will sound like I'm just saying it for the sake of it, but it is really important. This is not just the Bowles Amendment. This has got Liz Kendall is the co-sponsor of it, the Labour former leadership candidate. It's got Hillary Benn. It's got Yvette Cooper. It's got Norman Lamb from the Liberal Democrats, as well as Nicki Morgan, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, and Oliver Letwin, the former cabinet minister. So it's a very broad base. And the important thing is some of us support Common Market 2.0 or Norway+. Others support different options. Others support a second referendum. Others support a permanent customs union, but not single market membership. This bill has nothing to do with a particular compromise. This bill is about creating the space for a compromise by ruling out no deal break.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I mean indeed we know that for a fact because the Daily Telegraph has published the transcript of a conversation between Philip Hammond, Greg Clark, and series of business leaders in which Philip Hammond made quite plain that he thought this was fantastic.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know that, and you'd have to ask them, but I have been told directly by ministers, not in the cabinet, that they have said that they would resign if they're whip to vote against this amendment.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And we now have signatories to the amendment from five different political parties, so conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrat, SNP, and Plaid Cymri. We have sponsors for the bill from three different parties, and we can always add sponsors later. And we have had indications that many ministers, including cabinet ministers, are very, very keen to see it pass and are telling the Prime Minister that they will not vote against it. So there is a bandwagon rolling. It's got a lot of momentum behind it, and I very much hope that any MP who shares my view that a no-deal Brexit would be a disaster will jump on board.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But we pay, we'll pay half or less than we currently pay. We will have freedom of movement, but we will have something that we don't have as an EU member, which is an emergency break in extreme circumstances. So if, say, Turkey or the Ukraine join the EU and there were suddenly hundreds of thousands of people arriving in the southeast of England to look for work, that's exactly the kind of circumstance that the emergency break was designed for. We'll have that in Norway, in the common market that we don't have as an EU member.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but Tony Blair wants to stay in the EU. He's always wanted to stay in the EU. And my theory is that he wants to be the person who actually delivers us back into the EU by securing a referendum so that he can then go and become president of Europe, which is of course what he's always wanted. So I don't think that anybody should be trusting Tony Blair's word or motives on this matter. Now, the point about Norway plus, or as it's perhaps sort of better described, Common Market 2.0 is that you are in the economic arrangements of the European Union and you're not in anything else. Now Tony Blair loves all of the other stuff. He loves the political union. He loves the idea of a common foreign policy and of justice policies and of home affairs policies and environmental policies and everything else. That's what he's always wanted to have.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That might be true, but it might not be true. There's been lots of different briefing. The Times had a piece which suggested that actually far from it that the EU was now actively considering giving us an extension for a whole year until 2020. So anybody who proclaims certain knowledge of what the EU will or will not do is lying because the EUA is more than one body. It's 27 countries. And B, it hasn't decided yet.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I voted for the deal. This is slightly what I find extraordinary, which is that I'm getting all this stick for somehow frustrating Brexit. Anytime anybody ever asks me to vote for Brexit, I vote for it. I voted for Article 50. I voted for every single division on the withdrawal act. And I voted on Tuesday night for the Prime Minister's deal. To my astonishment, all of the people who proclaim themselves to be the true cheerleaders of Brexit trooped through the lobby, you know, Boris Johnson's Jacob Reese-Mogg, all these people trooped through the lobby with Dominic Greeve, Anna Subri, with people who want to stop Brexit, plus Jeremy Corbyn and everybody else. And yet somehow I'm the Brexit betrayer. I will vote for any negotiated deal to deliver Brexit and ideally a deal that delivers it on the 29th of March. What I will not do is”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course. And understandably, they didn't like the idea. And ultimately, it doesn't matter much. That was the sort of optional extra in the bill. The core of the bill, which is what the bill will now return to, and actually I think it will make it a stronger proposition, as it were, is simply this, that if by the end of February the Prime Minister has not secured a deal and got it through Parliament with a majority, she will be mandated to write a letter to the EU requesting an extension of Article 50 so that we do not leave on March the 29th without a deal.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Expression of agreement, yes, I think that was probably fair. Anyway, so the plan was leaked before we'd had a chance to speak to her or any of the liaison committee members about it.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The problem is that when we were writing the plan we thought we'd put another idea in it, which was that, you know, Parliament keeps on saying that it needs to take control and step up and assert itself. And we thought, well, let's actually facilitate that by asking the most senior elected parliamentarians who are the select committee chairs to take a formal role in seeing if they could come up with a compromise if the government failed. And hence this proposal for the liaison committee. Now, whatever the reasons, and I feel terribly bad because the chairman of the liaison committee, Sarah Wollaston, who's a good friend of mine and a terrific MP, was rightly furious because the plan was leaked maliciously by the government. So hence we were bundled.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now, you are absolutely right. I'm afraid I've learned a lesson which God knows all throughout life. One is always learning these sorts of lessons. Somebody once said to me that no speech should have more than one idea in it. And I could apply that criticism to this plan, which is that this plan has one idea in it, which is stopping no-deal Brexit by passing an Act of Parliament that requires”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think to be fair to him because I actually have a great deal of affection for him and he's a brave and good man. He said he thought it was an unpatriotic act. I didn't think he thinks so. I'm not a patriot, but he thinks he thinks that doing what I said I would do would be an unpatriotic act.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But now I sense, I sense that everybody in a sense, and that may well be true of the other side, as it were, of the argument, had become radicalized and have sort of entrenched into positions which make it very hard for them to understand somebody who's not in the same trench.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The trouble is, I don't think that people are satisfied now by what might have satisfied them a year ago or two years ago, even before Christmas, before I said what I said about a no-deal Brexit. I would organize these regular meetings. I'm having another one next Friday, but I'd organize these regular meetings for members, any member who wanted to come. And I explained to them about my own particular plan. And, you know, my own particular plan was always very explicitly a soft Brexit, softer than the one that the Prime Minister has just proposed. And they were actually relatively open to it and interested by it.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I will always know that it was profoundly good for me made me a better politician to be representing a place like Grantham and Stanford in Lincolnshire.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think that's clearly the case, though, of course, it's also striking that many of the prime movers in the leave campaign themselves would fit into most of those categories. Michael Gove's Dominic Cummings, who's obviously people are now focusing on because of that TV program, Andrew Roberts, the historian. These are people who speak languages holiday in Europe, love European culture. Michael Gove goes off to Bayreuth every year to listen to Wagner. I can't think of anything worse. But that's how enthusiastic he is about European culture. So though you're right, I think in a broad sense, it is a bit more complicated. For me, Whatever happens with my relationship with my constituency association in the next few months.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On political union, which was actually always their intention, and it was profoundly dishonest when we went in. Everybody was told it's just about a market. It was never going to be just about a market. But brilliantly, we managed to make it mostly about a market. And then after pretty much after Maastricht, it all suddenly went in a direction we didn't like. And I just don't think it's sustainable or even the right place for us to be. We need a new kind of relationship which is not full membership of the political union that is called the European Union.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He says this is the second breach of the road. Before, we tried everything. We tried, you know, let's face it for, you know, several hundred years. We tried dynastic marriage as the way to establish a relationship and some kind of influence over France and the Netherlands and Spain and all of these other places. We tried dynastic marriage. We tried conquest. We tried entents and other systems of diplomacy and of balance of power politics and the like. And every single generation is faced with this question and no answer is ever permanently acceptable. And I think that when we joined the EU, we actually had a good run because we managed to make them focus on trade and economics and markets for a very long time and not focus on the world.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Struggle is the wrong word, but it's wrestling with this question of what is our relationship to the landmass and the people to our east. And not just...”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, and I think that's admirable, and to some extent, I wish we could have done the same. But I think what I mean is that I think the past was sold because we had had referendums on Scottish Assembly, on voting system. We'd obviously had the previous European referendum. And I think it was therefore going to come. And the question simply was when it was going to come. Having said that, want to be clear about is that though I regret that we had a referendum, I now do not regret the fact that we're leaving the European Union. I believe, and if there were another referendum, I would not vote to stay in the European Union And this does relate to, in a sense, what I've been trying to contribute in the process, which is that I believe that we, our whole history is a constant.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I regret that we had a referendum. I don't actually think it was avoidable. I think the pass was sold on referendums as the way we make these kinds of decisions. A long time ago. I think we actually use referendums completely wrongly. There are issues them rightly to resolve sort of issues of conscience like abortion and gay marriage and stuff. But we use them to settle constitutional questions, which is mad because they're very complicated.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. And so there was some pleasure in creating a visual contrast, which I cooked up with the whips. And so the chief whip sent his, you know, very Swiss car to King's College Hospital with, as it, ironically, not ironically, because he's a very good friend of mine, but with Steve Barclay, who's now the Brexit Secretary, was then the whip, who came to pick me up from my ward in the wheelchair and take me in the chief's limo. So, you know, don't think that it was all idealism or anything. It was also a little bit of political fun.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I campaigned to remain. And I sent a tweet at seven o'clock in the morning the morning after the referendum when the result became clear saying that the people I work for have made a decision I advised against it, but they're the boss and I will now do my best to make the best of it. And so from that moment on, I wanted to tell them that I entirely was committed to delivering their decision. And I thought that Article 50 is the sort of symbolic legal moment. And in the end, my vote was entirely unnecessary when it passed with the most phenomenally large majority, which people forget. But I wanted to be part of that exercise. So that was the sort of Political message that I wanted to send. There was also then something else, which is that I don't know if you remember, but Diane Abbott.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Everything that politicians do. Is always a blend of high and low. So don't ever believe it when somebody says that they did it for entirely altruistic or idealistic reasons. So I thought to myself, okay, I represent this constituency that voted quite heavily to leave.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Choice and it was debilitating and uncomfortable, and you didn't know if you were ever going to get there. But it's not a battle because, and I think one of the main reasons why the battle, the fight word is wrong is that it's not other, it's you, it's part of you. Something in you has gone wrong. It's not this sort of foreign body that's invaded you.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, the person who put me on this wasn't somebody I ever knew, sadly, because he's obviously an extraordinary man. But A.A. Gill wrote about it when he got ill. And he said, it's not a fight, it's a journey. And I thought about that a lot. And I think it's exactly the right description of it. And therefore, it's not courage. It is stamina, its ability to sort of roll with the punches and just take what's coming. And I felt with treatment is just literally one foot in front of the other. You didn't get to choose a terrain. So I compared, I read a piece for the Times and I compared it to a forced march where you basically would take, you know, you had to march to the desert and then you had to march up a mountain and then you had to, you know, and you've no.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, well, and my immediate response to the first death threat was that, you know, if the individual knew a bit more about me, he'd know that I didn't need reminding that my days were numbered.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But even more than that, I think, and this doesn't just apply to work, it applies to relationships, it applies to how you spend your time, is just that feeling of focus on what matters, what you believe in, spend time with the people you care about, do the things that you really do interest you and motivate you that give you satisfaction. That sort of winnowing out of the sort of chaff of life.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But anyway, back to journey. Back to your question, it definitely has an impact because. Firstly, you realize that you have no idea how long you've got. My view is, they did tell me it probably wasn't going to come back and it did come back. So this time when they say I'm in complete remission, I just sort of say, yeah, for now. And that for now may go on until I'm 94. No, it might not. It might not. So there's that, the sense of not necessarily much time.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. It was a bit of luck because the weird thing about lymphomas is that. They don't always have other symptoms. And the only reason that I knew I got it was that suddenly, and it was a very scary moment, I was driving home from a surgery at night in my constituency from the town of Bourne. and I suddenly had developed double vision. And then next morning I thought, okay, I'll have a glass of wine and go to bed and it'll all be fine. And next morning I drove in and in daylight it was less frightening a bit, but not much less frightening because everything was in double. And what had happened is the tumour had bumped into one of the nerves that controlled my right eye and therefore they weren't aligning and so I had double vision. Now that was lucky because”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, it was a lymphoma again, so it was another variant of lymphoma, but it had grown back inside my skull, not actually my brain, but on the edge of my brain.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. So 10 years later, fully 10 years later. And it's weird how it seems to me always happen after some seismic event. So it happened after the referendum and then the leadership battle in which I obviously had tried to help my friend Michael Gove be elected leader. Quite soon after that it came back and it came back in a much more aggressive form. And whereas my first time round my chemo sessions took three or four hours sitting in an armchair once a fortnight. This time around each chemo round took a week in hospital. And it was really full on. And there is no question that this was quite likely to get me.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yes, I'm sure that has a huge impact. Funny enough, obviously I know that you did too, and it is an experience that obviously it doesn't have to be cancer, it can be other threats to life too, but it is a peculiar experience that it's quite hard to explain to people who haven't had it. I had the curious thing, which is I had it twice, so I had it 12 years ago, intentionally just after I'd lost my first parliamentary battle when I was trying to get elected in Hove. I had cancer for the first time. And I had to have chemotherapy and radiotherapy then. But there was never really any likelihood that it might finish me off. The particular lymphoma I had a very high treatment success.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Realize that I just wasn't willing to do was to support something that I believe would cause real pain, harm, hurt, loss to my constituents and indeed other people's constituents. And I really genuinely believe that about a no-deal Brexit. I think it would cause all of those things. I'm not saying that we couldn't survive it. We've survived many worse things than that. But I don't think it's justifiable to visit upon people entirely unnecessarily in order to fulfil some ideological vision which anyway I don't really share.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I guess that I was a supporter of the Remain campaign, but funnily enough, I was never passionately interested or even enthusiastic about the European Union. I always prided myself on the fact that in four years as a minister, I managed to avoid going to Brussels once. And indeed, I've never been to Brussels in my life. So it wasn't that I was one of those sort of, I'm not like Dominic Greeve or somebody or Ken Clark who's a sort of passionate idealistic believer in the European project. And so therefore, ever since the referendum, I've been very happy to go along with it as a decision. And I think it's a very interesting decision as part of a, you know, a thousand years of the UK, probably initially England and then the UK wrestling with the question of our relationship with the people to our east. But what I...”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My latest death threats, they are becoming, I mean, you know, everybody is sort of living out their own particular version of Gamewood Thrones. So a couple of days ago, somebody called my office and said that they were going to burn my house down. And then yesterday somebody called and said they were going to cut my balls off. So, you know, I feel like I'm about to get one of those vile treatments by one of those particularly unpleasant characters in Game of Thrones.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, obviously, that's really hard, and I think people take it differently. I have a sort of, I'm not sure fatalistic is the word, but it doesn't hit home for me that. A, I don't think it's really serious. I don't think that, you know, the person who ends up skulking outside my surgery with the knife that he intends to plunge into me is not going to have warned me on my website a week or two in advance. Do you know what I mean? So the actual phoning in or the emailing of a death threat, I don't think it actually is a threat. It's nasty.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, no, that is very, very good. I often find myself having to check where we are in a week because it feels like the week's been going on for so long. But I think what we all feel, and I certainly feel, Let's face it, that one of the drives for people to go into politics, that sort of strange blend of egotism and idealism, one of the drives is wanting to be In the thick of it when big events are happening and have some kind of impact or role on them. And For all of the attacks and the pressure and the potential risk of political career and everything else, this is a time when Parliament is as important as it's been in living memory and maybe longer. The question we're dealing with is one of the biggest in our modern history. So you really can't complain about being part of it.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We all feel like enormous in every day the amount of event and extraordinary things that would normally fill a reasonable year is somehow all crammed in. And then you get to the next day and suddenly the previous day's events feel like an age ago.”
2019-01-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Nick Boles One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source