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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And I thought you saw...
more than glimpses, actually.
You saw a demonstration of that from Nicola Sturgeon, even at a time when she's dealing with something which crosses the political and the personal.
And sometimes when politicians end up having to account for things in their personal lives or actions by their loved ones,
even very good communicators can end up, perhaps understandably, losing sight of the message and ending up with sort of contradictory messages that they give.
I didn't think that was the case with Nicola Sturgeon.
Sure, there are a lot of people who are not going to like or believe that she gave a full account in what they heard.
But I think it was pretty clear that she came in to your interview, Laura, with certain things that she wanted to say, and she got them across very effectively.
Yeah, unquestionably.
And I think when Nicola Sturgeon understandably kept saying that she'd been exonerated, well, that's true on one very specific level, which is that she was interviewed by the police and ultimately not charged.
But that doesn't mean that she's exonerated in the political arena where a different bar applies to the criminal law.
And I think it's there where she is going to have real trouble, real trouble
going to book festivals in future years, which she would like to do and being treated as somebody who is, you know, cleaner than a whistle.
I mean, I think that's where she's going to have real difficulty.
And it might well help answer that question that you raised earlier of why she decided to give this interview so quickly.
I, you know, I've seen those clips from the book festivals and I wonder whether it took her aback that actually people really want to ask her about this.
I think you get to the crucial point as well, Joe, when you,
mentioned the responsibilities she had as a party leader you know as a huge figure in British politics over the decade or so that she was leader of the SNP as well as first minister which is that look Laura you'd still have been doing this interview if Nicola Sturgeon had never been married to Peter Murrell it still would have been a huge scandal what happened on her watch clearly the fact that some of these things were bought for her and they were married
adds a particular frisson and a particular character to this story.
But it's still a massive scandal that happened on her watch as leader of the Scottish National Party.
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