about a0 million americans have already cast their ballots. now on bbc news, political thinking 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 carfactory. 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
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
it s a choice, a choice between two vastly different visions of america. this tuesday, you must vote . republican in a giant red wave. and as tickets for the glastonbury festival sell out in minutes, what is the best way of getting yourself a place? hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. no one is a passenger on thisjourney. the un s annual climate change summit has opened in eygypt at the red sea resort of sharm el sheikh. over the next 12 days, more than 100 world leaders and thousands of delegates will attend the conference, billed as the world s watershed moment on climate action. in a win for developing countries, delegates have just agreed to discuss whether richer countries should pay compensation for climate fuelled disasters. we begin with this report from our climate editor, justin rowlatt. it has been a year of record breaking temperatures and climate related disasters around the world. but africa has been hit particularly hard. huge
in a critical contest. it s a choice, a choice between two vastly different visions of america. this tuesday, you must vote . republican in a giant red wave. tickets for next year s glastonbury festival have sold out. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the un s annual climate change summit has opened in egypt at the red sea resort of sharm el sheikh. over the next 12 days, more than 100 world leaders and thousands of delegates will attend the cop27 conference, billed as the world s watershed moment on climate action. in his opening speech, the conference president, sameh shoukry, announced that financing for climate change induced damages in poor countries will be included in the official agenda. we begin with this report from our climate editor, justin rowlatt. it has been a year of record breaking temperatures and climate related disasters around the world. but africa has been hit particularly hard. huge floods displaced more than a millio