John Maitlis
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132 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 28 Apr
John Maitlis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, he denied that Peter Mandelson was his mentor.
He said, I didn't meet him till I was 44.
I was already an adult.
You know, he wasn't that influential, but he accepted that he was a friend and somebody who he'd taken advice from, particularly in the run up to the 2024 election.
And there is one moment where Emily Thornberry says, isn't it right that Peter Mandelson was also going for the job as chancellor of Oxford University?
And he thought he could do not one job, but both jobs.
And did you actually seek advice from a senior civil servant to try and explain whether Mandelson would be allowed to do both jobs?
Could you be a part-time Washington ambassador?
And Morgan McSweeney just says, I have no recollection.
I can't remember.
I mean, what else can he say?
It sounds absolutely ridiculous.
But this idea that he is perhaps so enthralled
to Mandelson, that he thinks he's actually either choosing between two jobs in the end, you know, Oxford didn't want him and that one didn't come across.
But this idea that he's trying to make things work to the point where he has to go and check whether it might even be possible to do two jobs, he says he doesn't remember that.
And there's another bit which I thought was really interesting, where they remember that Mandelson was actually in Downing Street at the time that Keir Starmer was doing a reshuffle.
And Morgan McSweeney's asked whether Maddison is getting involved in the actual reshuffle.
He's already ambassador by this time.
It's over the resignation of Angela Rayner.
She's the deputy PM.
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