Joe Pike
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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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Maybe there isn't something that's hugely damaging in these documents to Keir Starmer directly.
But we're talking about it because he made what he admits is a pretty catastrophic decision to appoint Lord Banderson as US ambassador.
That's because of the links to Jeffrey Epstein.
But also he's appointed somebody who is criticising him regularly.
relentlessly behind his back throughout this process.
That is another thing that we've learned.
Okay, this doesn't necessarily show that Keir Starmer has said something of that tone, but he has appointed somebody who he presumably doesn't realise is spending a lot of his time saying, what a mess of an operation.
And is there an argument, looking at how he's interacted with so many different people at different levels, that this is somebody, for all of his well-publicised faults, who is an operator, who did have relationships across government, and from the frequency of these messages, was clearly working very hard to try and get something done.
And I'm sure he'd argue some of the works around maybe trade deals or tech deals or...
of top politicians is evidence for that.
And in terms of ending different narratives, one thing I have found fascinating is...
is the fact that there are people in government in sort of communications roles who seemingly want to help us find certain things in these documents to ensure what happens today doesn't drip out until tomorrow and later in the week.
Now, to be clear, people in government have not been pointing us to that Pat McFadden quote.
Or indeed Peter Mandelson's many criticisms of their top boss.
But what they have been keen to do is point to different page numbers.
Have you seen this?
Have you seen that?
Wanting to ensure that we get everything.
So it doesn't happen tomorrow, next week and...
It would mean the most to the president.
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