Joe Pike
speaker
1,425 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard today
Joe Pike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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
he thinks hypothetically it's crackers to be changing prime minister as often as this country has been doing it.
But who the beneficiary of that will be, it's really, really hard to tell.
But I wonder also if really what we've seen is, James, as you say, a bit of a howl of pain from some of Labour's past greats that this government has not got a track record of using a once in a generation enormous majority well.
You know, only governments with enormous majorities, arguably.
can do big hard things and you can hear it from Tony Blair very clearly I think you could hear it from Alan Milburn slightly less clearly that there's a deep frustration that this government didn't come in and as the government did in 1997 came in
and very quickly did some big, bold, radical things.
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