Archie Bland

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226 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 Jul

Archie Bland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Today in Focus · What’s missing from ‘embarrassing’ Mandelson files? – The Latest · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

Actually, it was a very serious process.

And the fact that it wasn't taken sufficiently seriously is one of the major issues that has caused this crisis.

Yeah, so there are really significant things that aren't there.

And in some cases, they will have been excluded for serious reasons to do with national security and the national interest.

In other cases, they will have been excluded because the police have said that they should be excluded because of the ongoing court case.

But whether it's Mandelson's direct declaration of interest form, which we don't have sight of, or just the things that don't seem to have been written, like any reference to the fact that Ollie Robbins, then the civil servant in charge of Mandelson... Yeah.

said at the time that his case was borderline.

We can't find any reference to that in these documents.

There are big gaps still in what we know and I'm sure there is a lot more still to find out.

Thank you.

Today in Focus · Streeting to fire starting gun in Starmer leadership battle – The Latest · 13 May 2026 podcast

There are still a lot of unanswered questions.

Does he have sufficient support to raise a challenge to Keir Starmer?

You even hear people say he might not be naturally sympathetic to West Street.

At least he appears to have a clarity of agenda and a willingness to fight for it.

I won't have resigned from the latest by the end of this episode but

Yeah, it's interesting partly because it suggests that there wasn't a lot of constructive discussion there.

That's not long enough to have a kind of a very deep and serious conversation about next steps for the government.

It feels like it's about the two of them presenting a public posture of disagreement.

And we have since heard from allies of Streeting that he intends to resign as soon as tomorrow, which is a phrase which leaves some wiggle room for it not being tomorrow.

But there are still a lot of unanswered questions there.

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