
The Tories – seven years, five PMs. What’s next? Politics Weekly UK podcast
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The Hard Brexit of Theresa May
I was very struck by the story you tell about Philip Hammond listening to Theresa May give her conference speech in 2016. He says, this is your quote. It's a brilliant quote. All I remember thinking was there will be a television camera that will be on your face. If you move a muscle, it will be the story on every front page of every newspaper tomorrow. Big moment, right? Now your book does this very eloquently, but why did she become a hard line Brexit here? This is all about, isn't it, the capture of that part of the debate by the European research group, the ERG, those people? We've been around for a long time in
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