Nick Robinson
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1,535 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
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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A low key and loyal Labour man, he served leaders with views as far apart as Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn.
He has given no interview since resigning, but now, as Keir Starmer heads to a crucial NATO summit, we can hear his account of what is at stake.
For all of us.
John Healy, welcome to political thinking.
Thank you.
You were defence secretary for two years, shadow defence secretary for three years.
It was a big decision to resign.
How are you feeling about it now?
Is it something you've been contemplating for a long time?
What was the moment that you thought, no, I really do have to go?
Yeah, it was many months and it was constantly postponed, wasn't it, the publication of what was called the DIP, the Defence Investment Plan.
Did Keir Starman know that if you didn't get what you thought was necessary you might quit or did it come as a shock to him?
No, of course he didn't.
I mean if he knew all these things and you're close to him and you uh had agreed with him, why in the end could he not deliver the money?
Was it that the Treasury refused? 'Cause you had another striking line, didn't you?
Our adversaries, you said, do not follow timetables set by the Treasury.
By the way, as an extreme minister I I
Some people say, well, hold on a second.
John Healy's successor as Defence Secretary, just a few days later, was able to get rather more money, another fifteen billion pounds.
So maybe it's the way you went about it, because it is often said that you went over the Chancellor's head, you fell out and you tried to get Keir Starmer to overrule Rachel Reeves.
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