in votes for finland. the singer made history as the first woman to win twice. now on bbc news political thinking with nick robinson. who was the star of the coronation? apart, that is, from their majesties the king and queen. the answer, most watching would surely agree, is the bearer of the sword of state, all 8lb of it, held aloft for a muscle straining 51 minutes. my guest on political thinking, a conversation with, rather than interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking. it was a feat performed by the first woman to do the job at a coronation, penny mordaunt, and it won the admiration of people who are normally her political foes. she did it as lord president of the council. her dayjob is leader of the house of commons, and that performance led to the bookies cutting the odds on her becoming the next leader of the conservative party. worth remembering, she came mighty close to getting the job and becoming our prime minister last summer after borisjohnson
Hours. 0ne quite a lot in the last couple of hours. One of the things that is interesting about this story is the sun has focused on the amount of money that this individual was paid, who himself was convicted of drugging and raping a girl and inviting a pal tojoin in. Somebody with that kind of condition was put amongst very vulnerable girls. I draw upon one of the bbc interviews, with the person who led the prosecutions into the rochdale grooming gang. The line i seized upon is this idea, he said it was something he would never have sanctioned, putting a predator along with other predators alone with prey and not being in a position to manage the risk to children. Are we speaking without knowing the full details of knowing how the investigation was conducted and knowing the full details. Victims of grooming who probably at some time didnt know they were victims of anything. They thought they were friends of the perpetrators. Put yourself in the shoes of the Police Officers who know t