rules, but i wasn t sure whether it was liverpool or somewhere in the north east that you could sit on a picnic bench and i didn t want to mislead people and i said, look, i m really sorry, i don t know, but there is a website if you want to go and they ll tell you, i thought that was honestly the right thing to do. well, it turned out i became the news story. i was on gogglebox, i was on the news quiz. which conservative politician doesn t know? as though i was the stupidest person. obviously the knowsley comprehensive education did that come out. did that come out? it didn t. it did with a few people. you re always a little bit too thick to know the answer. yes, yes. and i thought, well, you re too thick to see what i ve done in the intervening period. you know, it s all there on wikipedia. this is the perfect setup for me to ask you some questions about what you ll do as education secretary because. .. i hope i know! i know this is not, you know, a news interrogation. as i alway
into this job to delay stuff, to write bits of paper that don t go anywhere. i m really much more about getting stuff done. now, you re a new education secretary, but your friends say in a sense, your life was a preparation for this job. is that how it feels? yes. even in politics, which i never thought of being a politician at all, i never thought of being an mp. but even when i first started, ifelt like my life had kind of been leading to this point without me knowing. and certainly, education secretary, if you could choose one thing, it would be, education secretary not only going to a failing comprehensive school in knowsley for the full five years and getting really in my dna. people say about levelling up, about recognising that talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn t. i lived that and i thoroughly and fully believe it. and i know because i see the faces of all the people who were there, i still see them. all my friends are mostly still in knowsley. we ll talk about the good
which conservative politician doesn t know as though i was the stupidest person. obviously the knowsley comprehensive education did that come out. it didn t. it did with a few people. you re always a little bit too thick to know the answer. yes, yes. and i thought, well, you re too thick to see what i ve done in the intervening period. you know, it s all there on wikipedia. this is the perfect setup for me to ask you some questions about what you ll do as education secretary because. i know this is not, you know, a news interrogation. as i always say, if you don t know what you don t want to say yet, you can say money you ll know is going to be one of the big ones, isn t it? oncejeremy hunt, the new chancellor, announces spending on schools per pupil, real terms is lower than it was when the tories came into power in 2010. truth is, it s not going to get higher, is it? well, this is the real difficulty across all of government. and, you know, i have a lot of sympathy with jeremy and
into this job to delay stuff, to write bits of paper that don t go anywhere. i m really much more about getting stuff done. now, you re a new education secretary, but your friends say in a sense, your life was a preparation for this job. is that how it feels? yes. even in politics, which i never thought of being a politician at all, i never thought of being an mp. but even when i first started, ifelt like my life had kind of been leading to this point without me knowing. and certainly, education secretary, if you could choose one thing, it would be, education secretary not only going to a failing comprehensive school in knowsley for the full five years and getting really in my dna. people say about levelling up, about recognising that talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn t. i lived that and i thoroughly and fully believe it. and i know because i see the faces of all the people who were there, i still see them. all my friends are mostly still in knowsley. we ll talk about the good
driven career woman and then that will be that, but over time, as things have turned out in the last ten years or so, i feel like i ve gone backwards. the government does acknowledge that while talent is evenly distributed across the uk, opportunity isn t and has committed to make levelling up one of its top priorities. yes, that s right, thank you. but in the meantime, adam has left his home town to realise his acting dreams. katie wray, bbc news. jeff bezos, the billionaire founder of amazon, has been to space and back in the first crewed flight of his rocket ship, new shepard. on the flight were the oldest person who has been to space 82 year old wally funk, and the youngest, 18 year old oliver daemen. our correspondent sophie long reports from texas. boarding his 60 foot suborbital rocket. he was not nervous, he said, just excited. this was notjust about realising a lifelong dream,