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hes the education secretary, kit malthouse. four years before then he did more junior roles, having been deputy to borisjohnson, not as prime minister, but when he was mayor of london. kit malthouse is seen as a fixer. he becomes the fifth education secretary in a little over a year, a sign ofjust how unstable politics has been. kit malthouse, welcome to political thinking. thank you. im flattered to be here. well, its been a roller coaster ride this week, hasnt it? it has been a chal...

memorials have been held across indonesia for the deceased. the british prime minister has admitted her governments mini budget that sparked turmoil on the financial markets could have been handled better. liz truss has remained defiant as senior conservatives criticised the fiscal event. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our thinking about what has shaped theirs....

now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with, rather than an interrogation of, someone who shapes our thinking about what has shaped theirs. well, you know what they say about a week in politics. what a long time this week has felt since that budget that was officially not a budget. weve seen the pound go down, interest rates go up, mortgages being cancelled, and billions and billions and billions of pounds being spent by th...

That you were a kind of gordon brown to his tony blair in city hall, doing all the work, getting not much of the glory and thinking i could do thisjob better than he could. well, you know, i forget who it was. there was an american politician who said theres no end to what you can achieve in politics if youre not interested in who gets the credit. and to be honest with you, ive always been a very kind of mission—focused person. ive never really been that interested in the celebrity side of pol...

There was an american politician who said theres no end to what you can achieve in politics if youre not interested in who gets the credit. of mission—focused person. ive never really been that interested in the celebrity side of politics. to me, its about the mission. a final thought for you, then. given how keen you are on this project or mission as you describe it, do you share the worries that some have? that there are critics who are, to use the words of a telegraph columnist, alastair he...

A final thought for you, then. given how keen you are on this project or mission as you describe it, do you share the worries that some have? that there are critics who are, to use the words of a telegraph columnist alastair heath, trying to turn this into an erm mark tow. that was the moment in whichjohn majors government was effectively destroyed politically in 1992 when the pound plummeted and interest rates went up. is that a fear you have politically? well, i dont share that fear. ill have ...