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THERESA MAY, FMR UK PRIME MINISTER: Thank you very much. It is good to be with you.
It is always easy for people to look back in hindsight and say, "Oh, could have done this, could have done that." Actually, there is a complexity about the issues that you are dealing with at any point in time that sometimes gets forgotten when people are looking with hindsight. So there are things like that that I have identified in the book as areas where I recognise I should have taken a different decision at the time.
My view was always that if the people had spoken, we should listen to that, and not try to tell them they've got it wrong, which a second referendum would have been. We, of course, in terms of Australia, we have been increasing our presence in the Indo-Pacific, the AUKUS deal, the UK, Australia and the United States is an important new development, and so I think the UK is there and I want to see us playing that important role that I think we can play with our belief in our values, in helping to bring people together to see a way to reform some of our multinational institutions for the future.
SARAH FERGUSON: Notwithstanding his very different value set to yours, did you ever wish you had some of Boris Johnson's showmanship? THERESA MAY: Yes, I do, and I recognise the many activists in the Conservative Party at grassroots level and my colleagues in the House of Commons. I think, I mean I spoke earlier about politics changing across the world.
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