residency and other rights of an attacker s family members. the memphis police department has disbanded the so called scorpion special unit whose officers are accused of murdering tyre nichols. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. hello, and welcome to political thinking. he s the man who leads the organisation which represents britain s biggest employers talking the country down. or is he simply speaking up for the policies needed to get the country growing again? my guest on political thinking this week is tony danker. he is the director general of the cbi, or what we used to call the confederation of british industry. he s gone from selling menswear on the shop floor in his home city of belfast to being an adviser, first for the chief rabbi and then a treasury minister during the banking crisis. it is thejob he does now, though, which led the times to argue in an editorial this week that he, as the leader of the cbi, should n
peppa pig world. you were on stage when the then prime minister riffed about peppa pig world, lost his place, spent 20 seconds saying forgive me, forgive me . could you believe what was happening? the most famous thing i have ever done in my life is sit next to borisjohnson when that happened. it is the thing i am most famous for. was something going through your mind which is, i must not, i am on camera, put my head in my hands, roll my eyes to the ceiling? this is a big revelation, for the 200 people who think peppa pig is the greatest thing around. my biggest revelation is, i thought the peppa pig stuff was very funny. i didn t agree with borisjohnson about much, but i always thought he was very funny. and if you replay that stuff, it s actually pretty funny. the forgive me, forgive me stuff was terrible. because he lost his place? he lost his place. i remember thinking,
what if he has lost his place and he doesn t recover, do i stand up and offer to help? i was his host. i remember thinking, do i say something? i thought to myself, if i get up and try to help him, that is the worst thing ever. i had no alternative to sit on my hands and try to smile. i came off stage. what did he say to you? he was gone afterwards, not surprisingly. i remember coming off stage and on my whatsapp had 83 messages. mostly filled with, help that poor man. do something, do something. i thought the peppa pig stuff was funny and his speech was quite good. i also made a really good speech that no one will remember. we just delivered it again, it is absolutely fine. let s just go back to this idea we are all post brexiteers. i am going to challenge that, plenty of people are listening and watching who don t feel
something. i thought the peppa pig stuff was funny and his speech was quite good. i also made a really good speech that no one will remember. brute good speech that no one will remember- good speech that no one will remember. ~ , remember. we ust delivered it auain, it remember. we ust delivered it again. it is remember. we just delivered it again, it is absolutely - remember. we just delivered it again, it is absolutely fine. i remember. we just delivered it | again, it is absolutely fine. let s just go back to this idea we are all post brexiteers. i am going to challenge that, plenty of people are listening and watching who don t feel like brexiteers at all. they think it is a mistake and those who think it is a mistake and those who think they are pro brexit, say we are not toast brexit because all the things that were promised have not been delivered. we had a referendum and we still don t know where to go as a country? as a country? first of all, i am a jewish boy as a cou