Theresa May is on her way to her first G20 summit. But she has still sat down for the traditional start of term interview with Andrew Marr.
Reading the transcript of it, it looks like a classic Theresa May interview: with very little given away. She avoided answering Marr’s questions on whether she would like to see more grammar schools and refused to say whether she shared her chief of staff Nick Timothy’s view that Chinese involvement in the Hinkley point nuclear project would be security risk.
On Brexit, May said little new about the deal she would like to strike–confirming the sense that, as one Minister told me, the government is ‘a way away from forming a definitive position’. Sensibly, she emphasised that she wants Britain to be a ‘global leader in free trade’; drawing an implicit contrast with the EU which is struggling
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