they have let women go back to their jobs and ministries like health and education, the interior ministry, but these are medical workers, educators in the education ministry, women who deal with women security and the security ministry, so they are allowing to work for women in areas where they have to work with women, the finance ministry, areas are where we were introduced to a group of dozens of women who have lost their seniorjobs in the finance ministry. what i did find on this trip is it is notjust the educated women in urban places like kabul which were able to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the last 20 years of international engagement, we went to a remote quarter, one of the poorest areas in the central highlands of afghanistan and sitting around with tribal elders all of a sudden an extraordinary outburst from an illiterate women who laments that
being told i had to go back to hospital again. and i thought, no, i m feeling much better. why do i have to go back again? and the reason i was given was that the hospital and the surgeons thought that they. it sounds funny even to say it now but they had. they couldn t find an instrument when they had, sort of, finished the operation, and they thought they might have left an instrument inside me, so they had to cut me open again to literally look to see if they d left an instrument inside me, so probably wasn t the best possible experience one could have with the nhs but it was, you know, many decades ago. and it wasn t there, the instrument? it wasn t there! it wasn t there. my brothers still. you d think they could have done an x ray or something! i know, that s what i thought, and my brother stilljoke about it today and they say, oh, look, are you sure you haven t got a pair of scissors inside you or something? can i borrow them? let s talk a little while about health, and
leading the nominations along with the london based football comedy ted lasso earning 20 nominations. now on bbc news.it s political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. the programme in which i have a conversation with, rather than carrying out an interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking. no politician since winston churchill has had as many seniorjobs in the cabinet as my guest this week. sajid javid replaced matt hancock as boris johnson s health secretary. before that, he himself has had to quit as chancellor after a spat with dominic cummings. he d also done a host of other jobs home secretary, business secretary, communities secretary and culture secretary as well.
no politician since winston churchill has had as many seniorjobs in the cabinet as my guest this week. sajid javid replaced matt hancock as borisjohnson s health secretary. before that, he himself has had to quit as chancellor after a spat with dominic cummings. he d also done a host of otherjobs home secretary, business secretary, communities secretary and culture secretary as well. he revealed in a speech this week that his mum had said, you may not be a doctor, but at least you have got a job in health care. sajid javid, welcome to political thinking. thank you. it s my pleasure to join you. so, your mum is pleased that you are not only health secretary but you kept your job in the reshuffle. she s very pleased, and, with that, like a lot of asian parents, i think she wanted at least one of her sons to be a doctor
and they thought they might have left an instrument inside me, so they had to cut me open again to literally look to see if they d left an instrument inside me, so probably wasn t the best possible experience one could have with the nhs but it was, you know, many decades ago. and it wasn t there, the instrument? it wasn t there! it wasn t there. my brothers still. you d think they could have done an x ray or something! i know, that s what i thought, and my brother stilljoke about it today and they say, oh, look, are you sure you haven t got a pair of scissors inside you or something? can i borrow them? let s talk a little while about health, and about, of course, a little bit about covid, as well, but i want to begin with this extraordinary fact that you ve had more seniorjobs than anybody since winston churchill. do you sometimes feel like you re the, sort of, government s fix it man? you re like the emergency plumber.