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3.5z"></path></svg></span><span class="dcr-1qvd3m6">Chris Smith … 'You have to realise there are limits to what you can do to hold nature at bay.' Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian</span></figcaption></div></div></div></span></div><span class="dcr-n4pnam"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role="inline" class="dcr-1fujct4"><span class="dcr-1inf02i"><svg width="18" height="13" viewBox="0 0 18 13"><path d="M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z"></path></svg></span><span class="dcr-1qvd3m6">Chris Smith … 'You have to realise there are limits to what you can do to hold nature at bay.' Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian</span></figcaption></span></figure></div></div></div><aside style="--grid-area:title;" data-gu-name="title" class="dcr-1fnjjtg"><div class="dcr-10355cg"><div class="dcr-0"><div class="dcr-4pzc03"><span class="dcr-1v9xu6e"></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/the-g2-interview" data-component="series" data-link-name="article series" class="dcr-u0pbjs"><span>The G2 interview</span></a><span class="dcr-n4pnam"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/chris-smith" data-component="section" data-link-name="article section" class="dcr-1v9e6r1"><span>Chris Smith</span></a></span></div></div></div></aside><div style="--grid-area:border;" data-gu-name="border" class="dcr-1fnjjtg"><div class="dcr-upmzd8"></div></div><div style="--grid-area:headline;" data-gu-name="headline" class="dcr-1fnjjtg"><div class="dcr-14emo0l"><div class="dcr-tp3hb3"><div class="dcr-notra3"><div aria-hidden="true" class="dcr-13832xi"><svg width="11" height="11" viewBox="0 0 11 11" fill="currentColor"><path d="M5.4 0C2.4 0 0 2.4 0 5.4s2.4 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.4-2.4 5.4-5.4S8.4 0 5.4 0zm3 6.8H4.7V1.7h.7L6 5.4l2.4.6v.8z"></path></svg> This article is more than <strong>10 years old</strong></div></div><div class="dcr-13fq93x"><div class="dcr-47lvke"><a href="/tone/interview" class="dcr-epjkf7">Interview</a></div></div><h1 class="dcr-wwqnv1"><span class="dcr-191bsoy">Environment Agency head Chris Smith: 'I'm not having my staff belittled'</span></h1><div class="dcr-1nvgr5i">This article is more than 10 years old</div><div class="dcr-16on7cv"><div class="dcr-1rjfcod"><a rel="author" data-link-name="auto tag link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stephenmoss">Stephen Moss</a></div></div></div></div></div><div style="--grid-area:standfirst;" data-gu-name="standfirst" class="dcr-1fnjjtg"><div class=" dcr-rbu3iv">The government badly misjudged when it attempted to scapegoat the chair of the Environment Agency over the flooding crisis. The former culture secretary has proved he can still punch his weight in politics</div></div><aside style="--grid-area:meta;" data-gu-name="meta" class="dcr-1fnjjtg"><div class="dcr-14emo0l"><div class="dcr-ich95x"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="100%" height="13" viewBox="0 0 1300 13" preserveAspectRatio="none" stroke="var(--article-border)" stroke-width="1" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" class="dcr-194w08h"><line x1="0" x2="1300" y1="0.5" y2="0.5"></line><line x1="0" x2="1300" y1="4.5" y2="4.5"></line><line x1="0" x2="1300" y1="8.5" y2="8.5"></line><line x1="0" x2="1300" y1="12.5" y2="12.5"></line></svg></div></div><div class="dcr-14emo0l"><div class=" dcr-1v9sla6"><div class="dcr-5oiine"><div class="dcr-1kpcv08"><div class="dcr-1r4u1x3"><picture class="dcr-1gesx20"><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/10/09/Stephen-Moss,-L.png?width=140&dpr=2&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 740px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 740px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/10/09/Stephen-Moss,-L.png?width=140&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 740px)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/10/09/Stephen-Moss,-L.png?width=75&dpr=2&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 320px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 320px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/10/09/Stephen-Moss,-L.png?width=75&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 320px)"/><img alt="Stephen Moss" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/10/09/Stephen-Moss,-L.png?width=75&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" class="dcr-1yduq3m"/></picture></div><div><address aria-label="Contributor info" data-component="meta-byline" data-link-name="byline"></address><div style="--mobile-color:inherit;" class="dcr-1pexjb9">Sun 16 Feb 2014 19.00 GMT</div></div></div><div data-print-layout="hide" class="dcr-9dgpdq"><div class=" dcr-16lnb0w"><gu-island name="ShareButton" priority="feature" deferUntil="visible" props="{"pageId":"politics/2014/feb/16/chris-smith-floods-environment-agency-interview","webTitle":"Environment Agency head Chris Smith: 'I'm not having my staff belittled'","format":{"design":15,"display":0,"theme":0},"context":"ArticleMeta"}"><a href="mailto:?subject=Environment Agency head Chris Smith: 'I'm not having my staff belittled'&body=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/16/chris-smith-floods-environment-agency-interview?CMP=share_btn_url" type="button" class="dcr-bao4ku">Share<div class="src-button-space"></div><svg viewBox="-3 -3 30 30" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M19 16c1.675 0 3 1.35 3 3 0 1.675-1.325 3-3 3a2.97 2.97 0 0 1-2.975-3c0-.125 0-.275.025-.375L7.1 14.15a2.9 2.9 0 0 1-2.075.825C3.325 14.975 2 13.65 2 12a3.004 3.004 0 0 1 3.025-3.025c.775 0 1.5.35 2.075.875l8.95-4.475c-.025-.1-.025-.225-.025-.4A2.966 2.966 0 0 1 19 2c1.675 0 3 1.325 3 2.975C22 6.65 20.675 8 19 8c-.8 0-1.475-.325-2.05-.825l-8.975 4.45C8 11.7 8 11.825 8 12s0 .3-.025.375l8.975 4.45c.575-.5 1.25-.825 2.05-.825m0-12.8c-.975 0-1.8.775-1.8 1.775S18.025 6.8 19 6.8c1 0 1.825-.825 1.825-1.825S20 3.2 19 3.2m0 17.6c1 0 1.825-.825 1.825-1.8 0-1-.825-1.8-1.825-1.8-.975 0-1.8.8-1.8 1.8 0 .975.825 1.8 1.8 1.8"></path></svg></a></gu-island></div><div class=" dcr-1csot3r"><div class="dcr-14baf59"><div><gu-island name="CommentCount" priority="feature" deferUntil="idle" props="{"discussionApiUrl":"https://discussion.theguardian.com/discussion-api","shortUrlId":"/p/3mmpe"}"></gu-island></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="dcr-fu29fd"><span class="dcr-1lhv23l"><gu-island name="ExpandableMarketingCardWrapper" priority="enhancement" deferUntil="visible" props="{"guardianBaseURL":"https://www.theguardian.com"}"></gu-island></span></div></aside><div style="--grid-area:body;" data-gu-name="body" class="dcr-1upb05m"><span class="dcr-1iz7gbk"><gu-island name="ExpandableMarketingCardWrapper" priority="enhancement" deferUntil="idle" props="{"guardianBaseURL":"https://www.theguardian.com"}"></gu-island></span><div class="dcr-1a4fred"><div id="maincontent" class="dcr-1bwys2b"><div class="article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector dcr-1q6n3e0"><p class="dcr-1eu361v"><span style="color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:700;" class="dcr-15rw6c2">'I</span>t was a terrible decision to direct ministerial fire against Chris Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency," <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/matthew-dancona-high-water-is-not-the-only-crisis-the-pm-faces-now-9123431.html" data-link-name="in body link">wrote Matthew D'Ancona last week</a> in his column in the London Evening Standard. "Those on the Tory side who think of him as a political seven-stone weakling are sorely mistaken. He is a sharp customer who fights his corner." Quite an encomium for a former Labour cabinet minister from a former editor of the Spectator.</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">I have to admit that I, too, had always thought of Smith, culture secretary in the first Blair government and largely remembered for being a bit too gushing about Cool Britannia, as a seven-stone political weakling. Until last week, that is, because his fightback against <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554901/I-wont-printing-Save-Chris-Smith-T-shirts-says-Pickles-calls-flood-boss-apologise.html" data-link-name="in body link">Eric Pickles' attack</a> on the agency Smith chairs was formidable and soon had the secretary of state for local government running for cover.</p><div id="sign-in-gate"><gu-island name="SignInGateSelector" priority="feature" deferUntil="visible" props="{"contentType":"Article","sectionId":"politics","tags":[{"id":"politics/chris-smith","type":"Keyword","title":"Chris Smith"},{"id":"lifeandstyle/series/the-g2-interview","type":"Series","title":"The G2 interview"},{"id":"environment/environment-agency","type":"Keyword","title":"Environment 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class="dcr-1eu361v">His<a href="http://audioboo.fm/boos/1909790-chris-smith-my-staff-know-100-times-more-than-any-politician-about-flood-risk" data-link-name="in body link"> performance on the Today programme</a>, in which he lambasted Pickles, casually mentioned he'd had a supportive text from the environment secretary Owen Paterson (who has been recuperating from an eye operation) and declared that "my staff know 100 times more about flood management than any politician does", was extremely effective. A programme that is often a graveyard for politicians had witnessed an unlikely resurrection. Smith, who had been cast into outer darkness by Tony Blair in 2001 when he was removed from government, was back, and this time it was personal.</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">There's a definite buzz in the Environment Agency's London office, which is just down the road from the Houses of Parliament and within flooding distance of the Thames, when I arrive. This is their moment, and you sense they know it. I ask Smith, who as chairman is at the eye of the storm, how he is feeling. "Busy, overwhelmed, desperately wishing the weather would turn for the better," he says. He sees his job as keeping the agency's 11,000 staff up to the mark, but also protecting them from unwarranted attacks. "I was annoyed when Mr Pickles made his comments deriding the advice the agency experts were giving. I'm perfectly willing to be a punchbag, because that's the role of a chairman, but I'm not having my staff belittled."</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">Before the Pickles provocation, Smith had been fairly low key. Was that a mistake? "I thought it was more important that everyone was getting on with their jobs rather than doing media grandstanding," he says. When he finally got going, though, Smith proved he could grandstand with the best of them, and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26116676" data-link-name="in body link">Pickles soon sought a ceasefire in the war of words</a>. "He hasn't unsaid it [his earlier criticism]," says Smith, "but he did at least stand up in the House of Commons and say the Environment Agency and its staff were wonderful. I think that was enough of an admission."</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">I tell him one of my colleagues has been counting up the number of official posts he currently holds – a remarkable 11, including chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority, chairman of the Donmar Warehouse and visiting professor at the University of the Arts, London. Surely more grist for critics who say that at such a moment the chairman of what is in effect an emergency service should have his eye permanently on the ball. "That is such a ridiculous calculation," he says. "Most of those are charities where I sit on the board or am a patron. They have four meetings a year. My two major roles are here and at the Advertising Standards Authority."</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">Smith says this has been the roughest period he has weathered in politics. "I had never seen, even in the years of New Labour when because I was neither a Blairite nor a Brownite I tended to be at the receiving end of quite a bit of abuse, the sort of briefing and sniping that was going on a couple of weeks ago. Some journalists were undoubtedly being wound up to go on the hunt for me." Members of the government thought they had an identified an easy fall guy; they were wrong.</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">Ian Liddell-Grainger, Conservative MP for Bridgwater and West Somerset, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hes-a-coward-a-little-git-i-will-flush-his-head-down-the-loo-tory-mp-launches-brutal-attack-on-environment-agency-chief-9115159.html" data-link-name="in body link">has been leading the assault</a>, attacking Smith for not visiting the flood-hit county earlier, calling him a "coward" and a "little git", and betraying a schoolboy sensibility by saying he wanted to put Smith's head down the loo and flush it. Smith thinks Liddell-Grainger is also behind a petition being got up in Somerset to have him sacked. "He is on a crusade to vilify me, but the fortunate thing is not too many people take him seriously. He's playing a game, and there's no room for these silly games in an emergency."</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">Will the government now see Smith as a troublemaker? "I hope not," he says. "For the past five and a half years I've tried not to be. I've made it clear that government makes policy and we implement it." He gave up the Labour whip in the House of Lords when he got the job, and says he tries to be non-partisan. His contract ends in July. Will he get through to the summer, or suffer <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/02/downing-street-row-removal-sally-morgan-ofsted-chair" data-link-name="in body link">a defenestration similar to that of Sally Morgan</a>, who was recently sacked as head of Ofsted? "I have every confidence I will," he says.</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">Smith stresses he has a good relationship with Paterson, who as secretary of state for the environment is effectively his line manager. But doesn't Paterson's scepticism about climate change make the relationship a little testy? "If you sit him down and talk with him, he will recognise that weather patterns appear to be changing," says Smith. "Where I think he would probably want to say he is unsure is whether that is down to human activity." Smith has fewer doubts: he says recent evidence suggests dramatic changes in the climate, and believes the scientists who argue we are contributing to that. "The more greenhouse gases we pump into the atmosphere, the more danger of change there is going to be," he says.</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">The implications for flood defence are immense. "Once the rain has stopped and we begin to pick up the pieces, I hope one of the things we do is think about how much more resilient we need to be in the face of weather patterns that are likely to be more extreme than we've been used to." He says the £600m a year currently spent on flood defence will have to rise annually by inflation plus £20m just to maintain our present level of protection.</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">Smith accepts that the agency's response to the flooding has not been perfect. He says it should have pushed harder for the money to dredge the rivers on the Somerset Levels, and he should have visited the county earlier to show support. "There was a whole rest of country to worry about. I was up on the Humber looking at the damage from the storm surge and elsewhere. But I probably should have gone to talk with people down there at an earlier stage."</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">He welcomes David Cameron's "money is no object" remark, but wonders whether it will apply beyond the immediate crisis. "I hope he will apply the same principle to the longer-term issues about improving our flood defences. One of the things that has worried me is whether flood defence is seen by the Treasury as a high enough priority." Smith says more than 5 million people in the UK are at risk of flooding, and that the government has to recognise the dangers. "This is a major issue for the national economy. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/flooding" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="auto-linked-tag">Flooding</a> knocks out businesses, it knocks out employment, it costs a huge amount to restore. This is something quite apart from the human distress, which is terrible. Government has to give flood defence a higher priority in terms of national infrastructure."</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">The Daily Mail and Nigel Farage <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2557506/Pressure-Cameron-110-000-people-sign-Mails-petition-calling-foreign-aid-BRITISH-flood-victims.html" data-link-name="in body link">reckon we should divert money from foreign aid to shore up our defences</a>. Does he see any virtue in that? "David Cameron very strongly said we can do both. We don't need to rob Peter to pay Paul." What about the <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/459369/Cameron-refuses-to-rule-out-axing-550-Environment-Agency-staff-in-flood-dominated-PMQs" data-link-name="in body link">550 flood defence staff identified by Ed Miliband last week as threatened with redundancy</a> – will their jobs now be rescued? Smith says the spending squeeze means the agency has to cut staff from the present 11,200 to 9,700, with a third of the reduction coming from flood defence, but he hopes the government will reconsider the cuts. With an election around the corner, the views of floating voters might well force a change of heart.</p><figure id="6e71099b-c869-4df7-b5f3-0f6fb8b375a6" data-spacefinder-role="inline" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" class=" dcr-173mewl"><div id class="dcr-1t8m8f2"><picture class="dcr-evn1e9"><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/11/1392129893064/6e3a8040-089e-42f1-9146-23ead599eb57-460x276.jpeg?width=620&dpr=2&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 660px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 660px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/11/1392129893064/6e3a8040-089e-42f1-9146-23ead599eb57-460x276.jpeg?width=620&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 660px)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/11/1392129893064/6e3a8040-089e-42f1-9146-23ead599eb57-460x276.jpeg?width=605&dpr=2&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 480px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/11/1392129893064/6e3a8040-089e-42f1-9146-23ead599eb57-460x276.jpeg?width=605&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 480px)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/11/1392129893064/6e3a8040-089e-42f1-9146-23ead599eb57-460x276.jpeg?width=445&dpr=2&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 320px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 320px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/11/1392129893064/6e3a8040-089e-42f1-9146-23ead599eb57-460x276.jpeg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 320px)"/><img alt="Environment Agency chief Lord Chris Smith" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/11/1392129893064/6e3a8040-089e-42f1-9146-23ead599eb57-460x276.jpeg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" width="445" height="267" loading="lazy" class="dcr-evn1e9"/></picture></div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role="inline" class="dcr-1fujct4"><span class="dcr-1inf02i"><svg width="18" height="13" viewBox="0 0 18 13"><path d="M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z"></path></svg></span><span class="dcr-1qvd3m6">Smith in Somerset inspecting flood damage in February 2014.</span></figcaption></figure><p class="dcr-1eu361v">The floods are serious, of course, but the political reaction has surely been over the top – foreign trips cancelled, endless trips to flood zones, a desperate attempt by politicians to show they care about the relatively small numbers who have so far been flooded. Smith says he understands the political hand-wringing. "Flooding is an emotive issue and the images are very graphic. You have to show you know what you're doing, you're in charge, and that as much as possible is being done. But you also have to realise there are limits to what we can do to hold nature at bay." Not every home can be protected; some properties, especially on coasts that are being eroded, may have to be abandoned. Flood defence, like politics, is the art of the possible.</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">Smith strikes me now – more than a decade after his frontline career ended – as a forthright, perhaps even courageous politician. Back in 1984, just a year after being elected in Islington, he was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/jan/30/uk.aids" data-link-name="in body link">one of the first MPs to declare he was gay</a>. Then in 2005, the year he stepped down from the Commons, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/jan/30/uk.gayrights" data-link-name="in body link">he announced he was HIV positive and had been for 17 years</a>. When I mention my admiration for his openness, he claims a third palm – for <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/historic_moments/newsid_8194000/8194251.stm" data-link-name="in body link">leading the parliamentary opposition to the war in Iraq in 2003</a>. He reminds me that he tabled the Commons amendments to try to stop the lurch to war. "There are times when you just have to be brave enough to do the right thing, even when it's going to be awkward and difficult," he says. "It wasn't a bundle of fun standing in front of a battery of cameras and journalists on the Somerset Levels, but that's the sort of thing you simply have to do. You can't not answer questions. You can't not stand up and be counted. It isn't the nicest experience you'll ever have, but you have to do it."</p><figure id="dfe48187-5232-42c6-99fc-ea79fa95da57" data-spacefinder-role="inline" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" class=" dcr-173mewl"><div id class="dcr-1t8m8f2"><picture class="dcr-evn1e9"><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/14/1392393095577/Chris-Smith-on-the-campai-008.jpg?width=620&dpr=2&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 660px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 660px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/14/1392393095577/Chris-Smith-on-the-campai-008.jpg?width=620&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 660px)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/14/1392393095577/Chris-Smith-on-the-campai-008.jpg?width=605&dpr=2&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 480px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/14/1392393095577/Chris-Smith-on-the-campai-008.jpg?width=605&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 480px)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/14/1392393095577/Chris-Smith-on-the-campai-008.jpg?width=445&dpr=2&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 320px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 320px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)"/><source srcSet="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/14/1392393095577/Chris-Smith-on-the-campai-008.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" media="(min-width: 320px)"/><img alt="Chris Smith, on the campaign trail age 31 in the 1980s." src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/14/1392393095577/Chris-Smith-on-the-campai-008.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" width="445" height="267" loading="lazy" class="dcr-evn1e9"/></picture></div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role="inline" class="dcr-1fujct4"><span class="dcr-1inf02i"><svg width="18" height="13" viewBox="0 0 18 13"><path d="M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z"></path></svg></span><span class="dcr-1qvd3m6">Chris Smith, on the campaign trail age 31 in the 1980s. Photograph: Life at a Glance</span></figcaption></figure><p class="dcr-1eu361v">He had been a relatively successful culture secretary in the first Blair government, so why was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jun/17/business.comment" data-link-name="in body link">he sacked with no offer of another government job</a> immediately after Labour won a second term in 2001? Smith tells me no explanation was ever offered. "He [Blair] was very nervous about doing it, but phoned me up and said, 'I'm afraid I'm going to have to let you go.' I saw him a couple of months later, and again very nervously he said, 'How is it?' I said, 'Well, I have to say I still think you made a mistake, and quite a lot of people out there think you did too,' to which he had the decency to say, 'I know. I've had to spend the last couple of months replying to their letters.'" He was replaced at the culture department by Tessa Jowell, which some interpreted as a desire on the part of Blair to promote more women. The fact he was in neither the Blair nor the Brown camp also meant he lacked a protector. "There was me, Robin Cook and Mo Mowlam, and we didn't really fit," he says.</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">Being sacked meant that at just 50 his frontline political career was over. That can't have been a pleasant feeling? "First of all you're very upset. Then you get a bit angry. But then you mellow out and decide to get on with your life." He has always had a hinterland to fall back on: he got a first in English at Cambridge, did a PhD on Coleridge and Wordsworth, won a scholarship to Harvard, and has a passion for the arts that is far from the usual synthetic interest of the here-today-gone-tomorrow culture secretary. That stood him in good stead when he lost the ministerial status and limo in 2001, and again in 2012 when he separated from his long-term partner Dorian Jabri, sold their home in Islington, moved to fashionable Clerkenwell and started living alone again for the first time in 25 years.</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">Smith says his disenchantment with the Iraq war in 2003 determined his future. "It made me absolutely certain I didn't want to go back into government, and prompted me to look elsewhere. I can remember having a conversation with Robin Cook when I'd decided I wasn't going to stand in the 2005 election, and Robin saying to me: 'That's a decision I could never take. I am a parliamentarian.' But I've had a very fulfilling time doing a range of other things." He became a fully paid-up member of the great and the good, founding <a href="http://www.cloreleadership.org/" data-link-name="in body link">the Clore leadership programme</a>, becoming chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority in 2006, and successfully applying for the Environment Agency job in 2008. In the latter role, he gets £90,000 for a three-day week – something his enemies have not been slow to pick up on.</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">Now, much to his surprise, he is back in the spotlight. "It is odd," he admits. "When I went into the Newsnight studio and sat down beside Jeremy [Paxman], he said: 'Hello Chris, I haven't seen you for a very long time.'" Happily, the old political reflexes still seem to be functioning. "There's a bit of experience that clicks in, and says 'Now I really do need to make a splash about this.'" Is he pleased to be back, having this moment in the sun (metaphorically speaking, of course) at 62? "It's not something I would relish doing on a permanent basis any longer," he insists. "I'm much happier getting on with the job of making sure that the organisation is working well, responding well, doing the stuff it needs to do rather than wanting to leap up and down in front of cameras."</p><p class="dcr-1eu361v">Naturally he has to say that, but it would not be human if part of him didn't think that in the past week, by standing up for his agency and puncturing Pickles, he had shown the doubters they were wrong. He did have what it took to play the political game and hold his own in that sharp-elbowed world. His PhD on the romantic poets and enduring love of the arts masked a tough political operator. Too late now to make any practical difference to his political career – Smith says that, like Al Gore, he regards himself as a "recovering politician" – but still nice to prove the man who had "let him go" back in 2001 wrong.</p></div></div><gu-island name="SlotBodyEnd" priority="feature" deferUntil="visible" props="{"contentType":"Article","contributionsServiceUrl":"https://contributions.guardianapis.com","idApiUrl":"https://idapi.theguardian.com","isMinuteArticle":false,"isPaidContent":false,"pageId":"politics/2014/feb/16/chris-smith-floods-environment-agency-interview","sectionId":"politics","shouldHideReaderRevenue":false,"stage":"PROD","tags":[{"id":"politics/chris-smith","type":"Keyword","title":"Chris Smith"},{"id":"lifeandstyle/series/the-g2-interview","type":"Series","title":"The G2 interview"},{"id":"environment/environment-agency","type":"Keyword","title":"Environment 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