Joe Pike
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1,425 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard today
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Well, what I was going to say is then you were working.
Well, I was going to say, though, and this is, I think, interesting to this conversation in a sense, because then you were working at one of the big social media platforms.
So you've got a kind of 360 degree view on comms, as people would call it, and comms in the 2020s, right?
Oh, quills at dawn.
So why did you think that they have all done this?
Because it is unusual, as Joe and I were saying.
And, you know, would you ever have said, ah, I know what we need now to really get things back on track, Prime Minister.
Sit down at a keyboard and type out 5000 words or whatever it is.
So what's he trying to say then?
And why didn't they listen?
But was that because the political will wasn't there and it was too difficult to suggest something new and complicated?
Or was it because officials were saying, oh, no, we can't do that?
Because we've heard it a lot.
It's really interesting, isn't it, to cast back because there are so many things that went wrong for a government in its early months when they had come in with this enormous majority, an enormous opportunity.
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?
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