people listening to this, nick timothy and fiona hill we re this, nick timothy and fiona hill were notpeople, but we cannot overstate the role they played with theresa may and in the election campaign. so people reading the telegraph might think, well, you had an awful lot to do with this! absolutely, and they did fall on their swords, resigning in the immediate aftermath of the election because of their role. there had been accusations that they had run a closed circle, and he admits in the article that there was perhaps better communication that could have been had with others in government and in whitehall, but there had been accusations that they had run the thing is, the three of them, but you are right, i do not think there is much of an apology here, not really any hint of, i hold my hands up, this is where we went wrong. he does have a bit of advice, you saw there that he is advising the tory party not to retreat into traditional conservatism, advising theresa may to stick with the social care reform, which, you will remember, was a real stumbling block in the campaign. he was

he was one of theresa may's inner circle, along with fiona hill, one of the two key advisors, and hesto that seemed to not go so well for the conservative party. but i have to say, in this lengthy interview, there are no huge revelations, as you might expect from someone who had that kind of insight and access and into theresa may. we didn't learn anything new as such about theresa may, what she was like to work with. as you say, he is talking about the fact that the tories should not have pushed this continuity message, should have stuck with the message of change. with hindsight, he says it perhaps should not have been such a presidential campaign, and he does say they probably underestimated jeremy corbyn. but i think, you know, it is a broad brush look, what you get is that he remains extremely loyal to theresa may, he is not going to spill the beans, still very much in support of her as the right person to lead the country, saying she has done well to turn things around after the election. so much of that is interesting, because you talk about no particular sign of contrition. p

waiting for fiona hill's version of events?”two she has taken a lot more stick, the press has been unrepentantly a lot more stick, the press has been unrepenta ntly hostile towards a lot more stick, the press has been unrepentantly hostile towards her andi unrepentantly hostile towards her and i suppose the next big flashpoint in this will be the two books on the election that come out on the yvonne conference, that will be incredibly problematic for theresa may. it's becoming an annual thing, the bookjust beforehand. we've done this every night this week. you have come in from france. i flew in from the south of france yesterday and i went through passport control at marseille airport faster than ever before. may be the guy doing the passport checks has been watching the news channel online and had seen what was going oi'i. online and had seen what was going on. but they barely looked at my passport on the way through. you look like a nice guy! doesn't mean i wasn't delayed by three hours but that was easyjet and their planes b

some would say heart of government, some would say he had an iron grip across government, he and fiona hilluge insight into how she works and how the campaign was run. but i don't think we had really any great revelations from this interview. and no real apology, or any hint of contrition, about what went wrong. there were a few reflections, having continuity message rather than a promise of change. with hindsight he says he perhaps wouldn't have made it such a presidential campaign, focused almost exclusively on theresa may rather than the party. he also says they underestimated jeremy corbyn and, as you say, should have focused perhaps more on the economy. but i think of reflections, some regrets but still quite a bit defence of some key areas, for example the policy on social care that seemed to really change things in the election campaign, because theresa may presented that policy and it didn't go down well on the doorstep. but he sticks to his guns on that, says he advises theresa may to continue with social care reform in that way. we got a few revelations on that he is still very lo

nick timothy and fiona hill two leaving . the conservative party headquarters. do you think. to be blaming the chief of staff for the policy initiatives i don't know that it's necessarily going to be that blames him but certainly they will be put in a frame for this because that's just the reality we lost the referendum on the e.u. when i was responsible and you get a lot of criticism if your advisor. campaign that fails and so i think that's fairly inevitable in this case ok thank you thank you. after the break. and pulls out his earpiece to tell us how social media in a socialist manifesto got nearly sixty five percent of british young people into the voting booth. and form a liberal democrat. britain's voting system has resulted in an illegitimate prime minister. paramilitaries and his former leader using his seat. but. fairly strong when there were two thousand. do chemicals that the advertising. really increase the risk of cancer. known to them in the. lead. by independent scientists. compensation for my time as was the others why is that me too happy. doing if you want

very keen for her to take the credit for the way things turned out, ignoring the fact that fiona hill put the care issue into the ma nifesto ? and who put the care issue into the manifesto? a lot of mps at the time said they didn't know anything about it. nick timothy, asi said they didn't know anything about it. nick timothy, as i say, very concerned about sexism, that mrs may should take the credit. we spoke to simon calder earlier, he will be back, the independent‘s travel editor, about saturday flight beaver, a headline writer's gift. editor, about saturday flight beaver, a headline writer's giftm is summer, people are going on holiday, people, papers talking about how horrible it is to go on holiday, designed to cheer people up who are not going on holiday! going abroad is awful, foreigners are awful, foreign baggage handlers are awful, foreign baggage handlers are awful, because they go on strike, and foreign weather is awful, because it is so hot. and this is not your opinion. it is not! this is the kind of mood that settles on the papers, a kind of masochistic moods that settl