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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So in other words he softened his language, he dropped the idea that America might abandon its role as the primary guarantor of security.
But they were not impressed by what happened over Iran, were they?
When Donald Trump decided to attack Iran and
Keir Starmer informed him or or was it you informing them?
You can't use your bases in Britain.
Yeah, when it came to deploying HMS Dragon.
To Cyprus it took day after day, and I mean was it as embarrassing as it appeared to be?
I mean you're out of office now, John, you don't have to defend it.
It was embarrassing, wasn't it?
The reason I ask is because there are critics on the left often who just say, well, why are we wasting money on defence rather than spending it on other important priorities?
But there are plenty on the right, or perhaps people who just sympathize with your view of the threat from Russia, who just say the Ministry of Defence is rubbish at spending our money.
I mean not just hopeless at it, but it is argued corrupt.
I don't mean in the sense of individuals taking back
Backhanders, but in the sense it's too close to business, it's too close to lobbying, it's too easy for it to be persuaded to spend money on glamorous projects.
Dominic Cummings wrote a blog that became quite famous about squandering billions of pounds, enriching, he said, some of the worst corporate looters and corrupting public life are the revolving door of officials and lobbyists.
It's not got a great record, has it, for spending.
conversation by looking forward to Prime Minister Andy Burnham, looks to be an inevitability now.
If he called you in and said, Hm, I've read this phrase, John, bigger politics, bolder priorities, harder choices.
What does it mean?
Has he called you in?
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