Jeremy Vine
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360 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Jeremy Vine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I tell you something, every single bloody journalist in Britain was on that list except me.
Every single one.
But I, so I became, look, I mean, this is the classic political correspondent thing.
You become fascinated with your quarry, don't you?
Presenters are fascinated with presenters.
the line and by the time well yeah but I mean I think Corbyn was a vomiting out of the Blair history and I think when I was at Westminster briefly after the 97 election you see they got 400 Labour MPs if you put them in a line from the most left wing to the most right wing Tony Blair would be the last one on the line I don't think he was ever Labour at all I'm sorry to say it I don't I mean I know he was in the Labour Party card but the thing was maybe it was performative and they knew they had to have and they knew he would get them in
Yeah.
And also I've heard people argue when I've said this before.
They've argued.
They've said, well, wait a minute.
Had he not been Labour in his heart, he is the person who failed to win in Beaconsfield would have gone with the SDP in 1983.
And it was you had to really believe in the cause to stay during Michael Foote's Labour.
So there's that.
I was going to, can I just say, I was going to say, Matt Mandelson, I just wanted to make sure we mentioned the Littleborough and Saddleworth by-election, which I had to go to, which was in the middle of the nineties when Blair said to Mandelson, all right, let's see what you can do.
And Matt and I, I covered the Littleborough and Saddleworth by-election was up there for five weeks for this thing.
And it was a Tory seat that Labour thought they could get and Mandelson had to do the whole campaign.
And so that was fascinating to see him
Being placed in the cockpit to see if he could do it.
No, because you didn't include declare war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And the fact that we were arguably grievously unprepared going into the world's biggest financial crisis that we overspent at the top of the boom and that you end up politically with this really unfortunate TBGBs, as it was called, where, you know, we'll never really understand exactly how bad that got.
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