about a0 million americans have already cast their ballots. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what shapes theirs. in a new cabinet dominated by public schoolboys and oxbridge graduates, the new education secretary stands out. gillian keegan s old school, a comprehensive in knowsley called st augustine s, was nicknamed st disgusting before it was shut down a couple of years after she left. like most kids at her school, gillian left at the age of 16 and went to be an apprentice at a carfactory. now, that was a springboard, as we ll hear, for a very successful business career. she went on to become the commercial director at mastercard, chief marketing officer at a big travel firm called travelport. her boss now, rishi sunak, says a good education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet when it comes to making
was nicknamed st disgusting before it was shut down a couple of years after she left. like most kids at her school, gillian left at the age of 16 and went to be an apprentice at a car factory. now, that was a springboard, as we ll hear, for a very successful business career. she went on to become the commercial director at mastercard, chief marketing officer at a big travel firm called travelport. her boss, now, rishi sunak, says a good education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet when it comes to making people s lives better. gillian keegan, welcome to political thinking. thank you for having me. now, just a month ago, i interviewed the new education secretary, kit malthouse, here on political thinking. and my first question was something along the lines of what s it like being the fourth education secretary in five months? you re now the fifth education secretary in six months. it s not good enough, is it? well, you can t get too much education, can you? but, i
and also donald trump all take their campaigning to pennsylvania. and thousands gather in seoul to remember the halloween crush victims many are demanding the president resign. you are watching bbc news. now, politicalthinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what shapes theirs. in a new cabinet dominated by public schoolboys and oxbridge graduates, the new education secretary stands out. gillian keegan s old school, a comprehensive in knowsley called st augustine s, was nicknamed st disgusting before it was shut down a couple of years after she left. like most kids at her school, gillian left at the age of 16 and went to be an apprentice at a car factory. now, that was a springboard as we ll hear for a very successful business career. she went on to be the commercial director at mastercard, chief marketing officer at a big travel firm called trave
one of them got zero, the other one got one cse grade one and i got ten. the conversation was not about my ten, it was all about why one of them had got one and the other one had got zero. so that was normal. most people did not get any, or one or two, at best. now, we ve talked to jackie, yourfriend. oh, god! she said that you always knew the way to get out of where you grew up was through a good education. was that your thinking? this is the way to escape? it was my mother s thinking, but not escape. my dad worked in mcalpine. he was an office manager for road building and he had probably the samejob from when he was about 28. he kind of started morejunior, he got thatjob about 28, and he did thatjob for all of his life. he was getting up early, he was driving to wherever the motorway was being built. sometimes we moved with him, but when we were older we didn t, and he always felt that he was held back because he didn t have what he called the bit of paper.
factory, which we ll talk about. but you were unusual. a lot of your friends are still in touch? many didn t get ten, maybe didn t get any. so my two best friends and i walking home from school, having picked up our results, one of them got zero, the other one got one cc grade one and i got ten. the conversation was not about my ten. it was all about why one of them had got one and the other one had got zero. so that was normal. most people did not get any, or one or two, if at best. now, we ve talked to jackie, your friend, that you always knew the way to get out of where you grew up was through a good education. was that your thinking? this is the way to escape? it was my mother s thinking, but not escape. my dad worked in mcalpine. he was an office manager for road building and he had probably the samejob from when he was about 28. he kind of started morejunior. he got thatjob about 28, and he did thatjob for all of his life. he was getting up early.