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Sir Graham Brady

lines on the record: 55
first: 2019-02-01
most recent: 2019-02-01
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Certainly, and was delighted when the Prime Minister indicated she was going to give her support and the government's support to it. But essentially, I started this process immediately after, well, certainly immediately after the rejection of the withdrawal agreement by 232 vote majority, but arguably I started it before that because I'd been making the case repeatedly that there was no way that withdrawal agreement with the backstop that could become permanent was going to get a majority in the House of Commons. And that was, again, it was demonstrated in spades by the size of the vote against.”
2019-02-01 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Sir Graham Brady One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's always the case that the chief whip and the chairman of the 1922 committee work quite closely together. I've often tried to explain to people in describing my role. I've often said to people it's almost a mirror image of the chief whip. So it's a very important interface in the management of the Conservative Party. We do work together quite often. I don't think many people would be bold enough to suggest that I'm somebody who's easily put up to things by the whips.”
2019-02-01 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Sir Graham Brady One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Saying, there's nothing that can get a majority in the House of Commons. We have to, you know, the people who want a second referendum or whatever else, they've always said nothing can get a majority. There's no option but to do it our way. Well, I've proved that there is something you can get a majority and I'm very pleased to have done that.”
2019-02-01 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Sir Graham Brady One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think we take these things one night at a time. I think it was an important thing to demonstrate, not only because it helps to bring a little bit of unity and bring colleagues back together. It's amazing once we do start to come together and talk to each other again. We tend to discover that we agree about nearly everything other than our well-known European difficulties, but also critically important, I think, because the immediate response that always we got from the EU side of the negotiations after the rejection of the withdrawal agreement in particular was why should we be prepared to compromise? We've no idea what you could get through the House of Commons. So my amendment really was an attempt to disprove that assertion and all of the people who over a period of weeks have dropped into a kind of easy, comfortable assumption as well.”
2019-02-01 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Sir Graham Brady One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'm not quite ready for an epitaph, yes, I hope, Nick, but I'm very pleased to have been able, I hope, to assist the Conservative Party, the government, much more importantly the country, in moving forward out of a really serious logjam, which was afflicting British politics and starting to look like it might never move.”
2019-02-01 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Sir Graham Brady One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source