now on bbc news, it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. hello, and welcome to political thinking. will he stay or will he go? that question has hung over westminster, hung over the country pretty much all of this extraordinary week. and one man has been willing to appear before the microphones and the cameras to make the case for boris johnson. he is my guest on political thinking this week, jacob rees mogg, the leader of the house of commons. the last time he had anything like this sort of profile was when he was arguing to remove theresa may. back then, he was the leader of the backbench brexiteers. some suggested, though, that he had been sent to the wilderness after he entered borisjohnson s cabinet. i am delighted to say he doesn tjoin us from the wilderness but somewhere
jacob rees mogg, the leader of the house of commons. the last time he had anything like this sort of profile was when he was arguing to remove theresa may. back then, he was the leader of the backbench brexiteers. some suggested, though, that he had been sent to the wilderness after he entered borisjohnson s cabinet. i am delighted to say he doesn tjoin us from the wilderness but somewhere altogether more comfortable. from his somerset constituency. jacob rees mogg, welcome back to political thinking. oh, thank you very much, it s very kind of you to invite me back. is it all so nice to be back in the fray, back in an argument about the future direction of your party, back in the argument about the party leadership? well, i don t think we need a discussion about the party leadership, i think we ve got a great leader, and as you know, i ve supported him from before he became leader and find it extremely easy to continue to support him. but talking to you is always great fun so it s a pl
like this sort of profile was when he was arguing to remove theresa may. back then, he was the leader of the backbench brexiteers. some suggested, though, that he had been sent to the wilderness after he entered borisjohnson s cabinet. i am delighted to say he doesn tjoin us from the wilderness but somewhere altogether more comfortable. from his somerset constituency. jacob rees mogg, welcome back to political thinking. oh, thank you very much, it s very kind of you to invite me back. is it all so nice to be back in the fray, back in an argument about the future direction of your party, back in the argument about the party leadership? well, i don t think we need a discussion about the party leadership, i think we ve got a great leader, and as you know, i ve supported him from before he became leader and find it extremely easy to continue to support him. but talking to you is always great fun so it s a pleasure to be here. well, it is often said that borisjohnson is
to political thinking. will he stay or will he go? that question has hung over westminster, hung over the country pretty much all of this extraordinary week. and one man has been willing to appear before the microphones and the cameras to make the case for borisjohnson. he is my guest on political thinking this week, jacob rees mogg, the leader of the house of commons. the last time he had anything like this sort of profile was when he was arguing to remove theresa may. back then, he was the leader of the backbench brexiteers. some suggested, though, that he had been sent to the wilderness after he entered borisjohnson s cabinet. i am delighted to say he doesn tjoin us from the wilderness but somewhere altogether more comfortable. from his somerset constituency. jacob rees mogg, welcome back to political thinking. oh, thank you very much, it s very kind of you to invite me back. is it all so nice to be back in the fray, back in an argument about the future direction of your party, back
other box sets and i did watch dominic cook a lot more, especially collies. not much baking and certainly a lot of cooking and pasta, one or two really good pasta dishes which my children actually want me to cook it again but i haven t been able to do it for 12 weeks now so i managed to do things that i didn t think i would find time for, of course. i don t think you will have time for a while. thank you very much regarding the political thinking. what makes sajid javid such an important member of borisjohnson s cabinet is that in many ways he embodies the tension, the contradiction, into wings of conservativism. 0n the one hand, he came into politics as a thatcherite, a man who believed in a small state and lower taxes and lower spending, on the other, he now presides over a department in which his conclusion is more has to be done to reduce inequality, more has to be done to deal with what he calls the disease of disparity. how he, how the five minutes to resolve those tensions, will