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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The key quote is that he was describing conversations he'd had with other Labour politicians, with Labour MPs, about the welfare system and public spending.
And he said, every meeting I have is, quote, who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?
They're asking the wrong questions, he said to Peter Mandelson.
And I think that is something that opposition parties are going to leap on, certainly Kimmy Badenock of the Tories has, saying that Pat McFadden has said in private what he and the Prime Minister deny in public.
Labour is now, quote, the welfare party.
We should point out Pat McFadden's team have responded, including saying that publicly, he said many times, the question we should ask is not what you are entitled to, but how can we change your life?
Yeah, from last summer, broadly speaking.
And they all really come in the McFadden-Mandelson conversations.
The number 10 operation is, Mandelson says, quote, beleaguered and bereft.
They don't work as a team, they are not led, and none of them really knows what Keir thinks or wants.
In fact, most of them don't think Keir knows what he wants.
The other thing that Mandelson claims, Morgan McSweeney, who was the chief of staff...
thought at the time was that the Prime Minister's instincts were sort of weak and that he was always on a cycle of quote, advance, buckle, advance, buckle.
Now, as you'd expect, we've approached Walton McSweeney for comment on that.
We've not had a response yet.
But these private criticisms of the PM are pretty constant.
iMessage as well.
Who's using iMessage?
So he's perhaps a bit more reserved.
Isn't that central to the sort of strangeness of this scenario?
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