prime in three months, i thought it would slow down but it has got more chaotic. ~ , ., ., ., , ., chaotic. when you are in opposition, that slightly chaotic. when you are in opposition, that slightly changes chaotic. when you are in opposition, that slightly changes how chaotic. when you are in opposition, that slightly changes how you - that slightly changes how you picture yourself because you are pitching as the personality of the tory leader of the day. it was very noticeable at the beginning of pmqs keir starmer, and i thought he was sending a message to his own party as well as to the country, congratulated rishi sunak as the first british asian to become prime minister. i first british asian to become prime minister. ~ ., first british asian to become prime minister. ~ ., , , minister. i think the whole country, then it was minister. i think the whole country, then it was diwali minister. i think the whole country, then it was diwali as minister. i think
at least 80 people are known to have died and it s feared that number will rise. divers are continuing to search for survivors in the machchhu river. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. thinking about politics isn t easy these days because we seem to live in an era of permanent revolution and constant chaos. i was due to interview angela raynerjust seven weeks ago, it was the day after liz truss first pmqs it was the day of liz truss energy price guarantee. it turned out to be the day that her majesty the queen died, and so much changed. seven weeks later, we are now in a week of rishi sunak s first prime minister s questions and angela rayner is back on political thinking. welcome back. i made it. how are you finding this roller coaster, because that is what it is. i thought when i was elected in 2015 that the wheels fell off politics then we had the eu referendum, we had ourfront bench suddenly became the backben
something to celebrate. but nadia whitham, leading labour mp, said it wasn t good for relations and she had to take the tweet down, why are there people in the labour party who can t welcome it? i think, there are issues around rishi sunak wealth and obviously he was a chancellor who was increasing taxes for working people at the time when obviously he has great wealth and his wife and the family were avoiding tax through non dom status but it wasn t the time of the place for that, you can congratulate and see a prime minister of asian heritage getting into number ten and seeing how amazing that is and congratulating them on that basis without bringing everything else into it. and i think sometimes, especially with the fast pace of politics, you know, it can get ahead of itself where it sometimes it is nice to stop and look at something for what it is and say this is a good thing.
so i gave her, it wasn t an amazing car, it was an old golf, but i gave her the car and she was just in tears because it meant so much to her that she was able to carry on working and take the kids to school because she couldn t do it on the transport system at the time because everything was in chaos and she needed to continue to work on the children needed to go to school. i was incredibly lucky because my son rang me up and told me that the bailiffs had sent a letter and that they were going to be at the door and that it was a bill that his partner, they were in so much debt, so many debts come into the house that she thought she had put plans in place for all of those debts and then there was one that had missed that she hadn t seen and then it got to the bailiffs stage and shejust didn t have the money. this was recently? this was recently, they didn t have the money, they were panicking, they will come in to take the children s toys. he is a proud man, he doesn t want to ask his
an mp in 2015 there was a young lad from my constituency, kane, a care lever, he put the man in his bank account for his friend, his fur cash first property and bonga had managed, had the ability to take that money that he owed in debt straight out of his bank account so therefore he didn t have the money for his round that the social worker had given him and he hung himself, at 18. and ijust think, young people are under that much pressure now and people are under that much pressure now, people don t choose their poverty. it is not a luxury to be in that poverty situation. and i hear people say their kids have got the best clothes. i remember scouring the charity shops when i was a young mum, i had ryan when i was a young mum, i had ryan when i was 16, andi was a young mum, i had ryan when i was 16, and i rememberwalking was a young mum, i had ryan when i was 16, and i remember walking to the posh area of our area i would