strong relationships, institutional and personal with the devolved administrations and spent time with each of theirfirst administrations and spent time with each of their first ministers, told them i was there cabinet secretary as well. they should think of me and supporting them as well. i wanted to make sure that the devolved administrations, recognising the different districts, the more collaboration the better. the devolved administrations were invited to attend the groups. was that a writer an invitation? it would be an invitation. cabinet committees do not normally involve devolved administrations for obvious reasons. they weren t included routinely in the international one because that is entirely preserved, but they were asked to join the others. and the expectation was that they were included. it wasn tjust they were included. it wasn tjust they would be invited ad hoc, they were part of that process. that was very much the intention. find were part of that process
morality. don was there. listening in. watching on. what did you make of it? it was extraordinary, wasn t it? to say it s the day before the world cup kicks off, i don t think football was really mentioned. he arrived. to say that he was bristling with irritation at the media s coverage of qatar and everything that goes on here would be a monumental understatement. he said he was going to talk a few minutes, maybe 45 minutes with questions. but he was still going with his monologue after an hour, which was incredible. there was a lot of false equivalence, a lot of what-aboutism. and he wasn t furious and angry-angry. but you could tell he was so annoyed and irritated about everything that had been said. the thing that really surprised people came off the bat where he said i feel qatari, i feel
don riddell was with me. reporter: it was extraordinary. to say it was the day before the world cup kicks off, i don t think football was mentioned. to say he was bristling of the media coverage of qatar would be a monumental underestimate. he said he was going to talk for a few minutes, maybe 45 minutes with some questions. but he was still going with his monologue after an hour, which was quite incredible. there was a lot of false equivalence, a lot of what about-ism. and he wasn t furious and angry, angry. but you could just tell he was so annoyed and so irritated about everything that s been said. and i think the thing that surprised people came right off the back when he said i feel