members of the national education union will walk out on the 5th and 7th ofjuly. the government says the strikes will cause real damage to pupils. now on bbc news political thinking with nick robinson. rishi sunak is talking rubbish, at least that s what boris johnson says, as a bitter row between the two men that have been simmering for weeks burst into the open. it s just the latest episode of tory infighting that dates back notjust to the fall ofjohnson, but arguably to the fall of margaret thatcher decades ago. my guest on political thinking this weekjoined the conservative party back then, in the early 1990s, he s been close to or an adviser to five of the last seven conservative leaders from john major to rishi sunak. and for much of that time, daniel finkelstein, lord finkelstein has been a columnist for the times newspaper, chronicling the ups and downs of british politics, drawing on his experience of that politics, but also drawing on his family s extraordinary
to rishi sunak. and for much of that time, daniel finkelstein, lord finkelstein has been a columnist for the times newspaper, chronicling the ups and downs of british politics, drawing on his experience of that politics, but also drawing on his family s extraordinary story. his mother, escaped the nazis having been an inmate in the bergen belsen concentration camp. his father escaped the gulag, having been sent there by the soviet union. danny finkelstein, welcome to political thinking. as a columnist, as an adviser as well, you ve argued in defense of what you always call moderation. we might come to what moderation is in a second, but i sense in your recent writing, you fear that that is under threat in a way you never thought it was before. yeah, i think i do. you know, i have always been so confident about this country. my parents came here as refugees, as you said.