Joe Pike
speaker
1,291 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Joe Pike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People close to her have described it as to me.
But certainly what the Ministry of Justice have said today is,
is that their thoughts are with victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
But as Minister Davis-Jones said, we are reviewing what is possible and will look at all options to support victims and survivors.
But here's the key sentence, Adam.
The Prime Minister is committed to meeting with victims, but a public inquiry is not being actively considered.
One argument, of course, against, not that has been articulated today, but...
newscasters will be aware of this, is the cost of public inquiries, which can be, well, the COVID inquiry has now cost more than £200 million.
Absolutely.
But I suppose the lack of... The news is the news.
But the team number 10 are pretty new in place, as are the advisors and some of the politicians across government.
I'm not talking about Alex Davis-Jones.
No, she's pretty experienced and respected.
But I'm talking about really advisors.
And of course, Adam, the other point is a lot of them are on holiday.
So the people more experienced at dealing with these knotty issues, I don't think were necessarily there when key questions were being asked.
And it's led to a bit of a sort of embarrassing series of unfortunate events.
And I think that's partly because she... I mean, I'm not saying it's sort of therapy as a podcast, but there's an authenticity and an honesty to the sort of topics and the way her interviews are constructed, often with celebrities...
that I think would make some politicians loathe to engage too much.
But of course, Andy Burnham, and we've seen this in recent weeks, has often done... used different sort of media formats.
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