Nick Gibb’s awkward reaction as he’s asked about Gillian Keegan’s sweary outburst

Nick Gibb laughs as he's asked if he's as 'frustrated' as Gillian KeeganBBC

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00:00 You were frustrated, as your boss, Gillian Keegan, clearly is, by this.

00:04 She was caught making an off-guard comment yesterday,

00:08 while still on microphone, still on camera.

00:10 How would you express your frustration in a similar way?

00:14 Well, look, this is an off-the-cuff comment,

00:17 and she's apologised for the language used.

00:19 I think what she was frustrated with was about the questioning.

00:22 I'm not frustrated about your questioning, it's absolutely fine.

00:24 But I think she was frustrated about the questioning,

00:27 because she knows how hard civil servants in the department

00:30 have been working on this issue of RAC,

00:32 not just in the last period over the summer,

00:35 but also since 2018,

00:37 to be more proactive than any other government,

00:40 going out, sending engineers out to schools that have had problems

00:45 to identify and understand what's happening with RAC,

00:48 and from that evidence, then taking important decisions

00:51 about how to handle this issue in the 156 schools

00:55 where we have identified RAG.