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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But they've ended up in this position where Keir Starmer is finding himself point by point, almost rejecting the criticisms of Labour's most successful ever leader.
I just wonder, James, what do you really think is going on here inside the Labour Party?
Is this just all a kind of warm up for what might be a leadership contest that's going to be a debate that runs on for the next few months?
And that's why Tony Blair wanted to get kind of his version of the Labour Party out there into the public domain.
And then Andy Burnham stepped in.
What is this really all about?
Well, that's right.
That's why it's so interesting, because this is a big power play, isn't it?
It's so interesting, isn't it, just what went through his mind, because it's worth telling newscasters, this is the first big political intervention that Tony Blair has made deliberately in this government's lifetime.
And it's not for want of trying.
I mean, I'm sure I will not be the only journalist who has asked Tony Blair and his team a million times, say, will you come on and talk about this?
Will you come on and talk about the government?
Will you come on?
And he's done some very carefully written...
newspaper pieces, particularly on things like artificial intelligence.
He's done some joint pieces with William Hague and the kind of here we are, two former elder statesmen.
But deciphering and trying to decode why this has been the moment is really interesting.
And you wonder, just he thinks, look, there's going to be a debate about what Labour's for.
He doesn't want the next job to go straight to Andy Burnham.
He made the point very clearly that
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