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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Well, the government, which is still led by Sir Keir Starmer, I think that's an important clarification to make at the moment, given, as you guys recounted yesterday, the sort of essays being offered up by various pretenders to the throne and former occupants of the throne in the case of Tony Blair.
So I think we'll see Keir Starmer trying to get back on the front foot.
Parliament hasn't been sitting for a week and there'll be... This is a government just in the early stages of the second session of its parliament, so it's got all sorts of important legislation.
But...
I think we will be right back into the scene of one of Sir Keir Starmer's, by his own admission, biggest political errors as prime minister, because at some point this week, the government is going to publish loads and loads and loads of documents related to all the communications that Peter Mandelson had with various cabinet ministers, various officials while he was UK ambassador to the US.
And there is lots in there that people in government are making no bones about.
It's going to be very embarrassing for some of the people involved.
It's going to be fascinating.
Joe Pike.
How nice to be with you on this very hot day.
Or just the kind of day to stay inside and read tens of thousands of words written by politicians.
I suppose that's right.
Studying in the park.
Well, we have all and everybody in the political world has been doing quite a lot of studying this week.
Because not one, not two, but three politicians decided that the best way to communicate with the world at large was to write some very long pieces of texts.
I haven't seen that for a while.
Certainly what he's done.
Lots of discussion of Tony Blair's essay this week with Adam.
Lots of discussion, too, of Andy Burnham's riposte to Tony Blair in the newspapers as well.
But we're going to talk today about, weirdly, one of the maybe under-discussed of all of these essays, the essay from the current prime minister who joined in with his sub-stack.
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