from tony blair to rishi sunak, ifelt like humming the tune of ghostbusters! who are you going to call? louise casey! why you? how did this happen? i don t really know, actually. i don t know. i started offjust working in charities with homeless people and then all our dreams came true when somebody said, we want to reduce the number of people sleeping on the streets by two thirds, we will set a target, we are serious and i got thatjob. and i suppose i am pretty fearless. and pretty determined, if i believe in the cause. and i always say to people, success then breeds success. we are a nation that loves our failures, aren t we? god love henman, who never won wimbledon but we made the name of that hill after him. we celebrate the underdog which is one of our most endearing and wonderful qualities. drifting is a fearless, we talk to a few people you worked with and one former cabinet minister said louise is like, a live grenade thrown into the civil service. and added, in cas
champions league final in istanbul, leaving i o champions league final in istanbul, leaving 1 0 with 20 minutes left, rodri was the scorer. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. draw up a list of some of the toughest policy of nuts that any government needs to crack and you probably put pretty near the top rough sleeping. you might add anti social behaviour, troubled families, maybe child sexual exploitation. victims rights and last but certainly not least, the culture and standards of the police. that list is a short summary of the job is done by my guest this week on political thinking. job is done by my guest this week on politicalthinking. she job is done by my guest this week on political thinking. she has done those jobs political thinking. she has done thosejobs for political thinking. she has done those jobs for five different prime ministers, both main political parties over the last quarter of a century or
we have got to grasp it, you said. are we ever going to create a britain for and if not now then when? we haven t, have we? we haven t. and i m trying not to be naive. but i think in time my view is that we will realise that you can t have such a vast number of the squeezed middle, the theresa may expression, the sort of low income, you can t have such a vast number of people struggling and having to take more than one job and being really concerned. it is the pressure on that, it s too great. and i think we have not recovered the pandemic sufficiently, the economy, everything. and i think that my worry is that political parties, all of them, need to see that somehow, just taking some of the economic, social pressure out of these families is worth it.
like me to be a tsarfigure what you get a minister to do the job they are doing, what their needing a psychology people and there are plenty of people younger than me that could do it as well people like me as a tsar figure. if they wanted all your whatsapp messages or you were in number 10, would you say to them, of course? what s the fuss? i honesty think people need to get over it. baroness hallett has been employed to do a job. she will rule what is relevant and not, and what everybody is worried about i think it s all of these, old ministers can t have thoughts and discussions with advisers. she will know the difference between ministers throwing about ideas and people doing wrong things. so if they were not afraid, you would hand it over. and what if you were an official saying, i said something that my child was ill, i revealed something about where i was? you would expect baroness hallett to operate at the highest
from tony blair to rishi sunak, ifelt like humming the tune of ghostbusters! who are you going to call? louise casey! why you? how did this happen? i don t really know, actually. i don t know. i started offjust working in charities with homeless people and then all our dreams came true when somebody said, we want to reduce the number of people sleeping on the streets by two thirds, we will set a target, we are serious and i got thatjob. and i suppose i am pretty fearless. and pretty determined, if i believe in the cause. and i always say to people, success then breeds success. we are a nation that loves our failures, aren t we?