was nicknamed st disgusting before it was shut down a couple of years after she left. like most kids at her school, gillian left at the age of 16 and went to be an apprentice at a car factory. now, that was a springboard, as we ll hear, for a very successful business career. she went on to become the commercial director at mastercard, chief marketing officer at a big travel firm called travelport. her boss, now, rishi sunak, says a good education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet when it comes to making people s lives better. gillian keegan, welcome to political thinking. thank you for having me. now, just a month ago, i interviewed the new education secretary, kit malthouse, here on political thinking. and my first question was something along the lines of what s it like being the fourth education secretary in five months? you re now the fifth education secretary in six months. it s not good enough, is it? well, you can t get too much education, can you? but, i
and also donald trump all take their campaigning to pennsylvania. and thousands gather in seoul to remember the halloween crush victims many are demanding the president resign. you are watching bbc news. now, politicalthinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what shapes theirs. in a new cabinet dominated by public schoolboys and oxbridge graduates, the new education secretary stands out. gillian keegan s old school, a comprehensive in knowsley called st augustine s, was nicknamed st disgusting before it was shut down a couple of years after she left. like most kids at her school, gillian left at the age of 16 and went to be an apprentice at a car factory. now, that was a springboard as we ll hear for a very successful business career. she went on to be the commercial director at mastercard, chief marketing officer at a big travel firm called trave
convened her final cabinet meeting afterjust seven weeks in office, making her the shortest serving prime minister in british history. i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. i have therefore spoken to his majesty the king to notify him that i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. this is the easy bit, they will appreciate the transition from one prime minister to the other. after that, in tough road lies ahead with rising inflation, rising bills and rising inflation, rising bills and rising interest rates. we will bring you more throughout another momentous day in british politics. do stay with us on bbc news. it has been a period of immense instability in british politics, the transitions between two prime ministers in a matter of months. a busy summer, a long contest to decide who would become the leader of the conservative party, the ruling party in the uk at the moment. they have been in office first with coalition partn
no change in two of the big offices of state jeremy hunt stays at the treasury, and james cleverly remains foreign secretary. suella braverman returns as home secretary less than a week after she resigned and dominic raab is deputy prime minister. the dilemmas of government are instant, who to hire and who to fire as british in an attempt to assemble as british in an attempt to assemble a team that can last that his party will support. it comes as new figures show the task in hand, with the price of some household basics soaring. you can see it on the shelves when you go into the supermarkets, you ve got to really think about making better choices. ultimately, the cost needs to come down or people s income needs to go up. we ll be looking at the serious issues confronting the new government with our editors and correspondents across the uk. and stay with us here on bbc news for continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the wor
says its navy fired shots to repel a north korean ship that had passed into the sea boundary between the north and south. north korea s military said it responded by firing ten artillery shot. now here on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson and just a note that this programme was recorded before the news broke about boris johnson s announcement broke about borisjohnson s announcement that he would not stand in the conservative party leadership contest. the turmoil in the conservative party, the psychodrama, the soap opera with ever more unlikely plot developments, has its roots in brexit, the unresolved question of how this country should reshape itself, having decided to leave the eu. that is one reason my guest on political thinking this week matters. david frost is seen by his admirers as the guardian of the brexiteer flame, the man who borisjohnson put into the house of lords and made his chief brexit negotiator, who s now considering a bid to become a member