Nick Robinson
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1,535 appearances
8 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Nick Robinson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Of the imperial.
But now the importance of you describing it that way is that you and indeed there's a long history of this idea have said, let's kind of slim the treasury down a bit, let's take some of its hold on government away.
Is that something we should expect?
So it's got its tentacles reaching out.
Now there is a solution to that without setting up a brand new department.
What too few people?
Just figure me, translate that jargon a little bit for us.
Are you saying that at the moment a Prime Minister, any Prime Minister, can't say to the Treasury, Well, I'm interested in this tax change?
They'd have to go and persuade the Chancellor who then asked the officials and then it might happen.
How do you avoid them going to war? 'Cause you will know the great history.
Of number ten and number eleven is the rivalry.
How do you avoid Burnham falling out with Chancellor Miliband?
That's not the tough.
Not even the Chancellor of the Duchess Lancaster.
There's another central idea that Andy Burnham has talked about, which I wanted you to translate as well the politics of place.
Now, I think people sometimes if they're not reading every detail, not watching and listening to speeches, might think oh he's banging on about Manchester again.
He's making a different point though.
So how can a Burnham government change that?
A last thought about this before we have to wind up our conversation.
Here in Sheffield, you're very proud, aren't you, as a Sheffield lass, as I say, and also as a local MP, of the fact that the one place in Sheffield that a lot of people who've never been here have heard of is the Crucible.
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