Nick Robinson
speaker
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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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 4.
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Yeah.
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And was that because all minds were just on winning?
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It was such a tall mountain that you had to climb.
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Let's be honest, many people thought it was impossible to win after the defeat of twenty nineteen that you were kind of single mindedly focused on victory rather than on governing.
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I want to take you through some of those things that that went wrong and what you've learned from them.
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What you've learned about yourself, about Keir Starmer, about the states you put in.
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But I want to begin by asking you why you're doing this interview.
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You you've not done an interview before, you've not been able to do an interview for a long time, because that's not what people are chief of staff or senior strategist for a prime minister or a leader of the opposition do, but
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Why why are you here?
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What do you want to achieve?
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I was struck that on the first time I saw you speak in public, which was giving evidence to a parliamentary select committee about the Mandelson appointment, you used an interesting phrase.
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You said that sort of mythos, Greek word, had been built around you.
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What did you mean by that?
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Well you see there'll be people listening to this watch you.
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So here's this rather quietly spoken Irishman.
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Shy, is that the right word?
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And yet people
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Feared you.
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I mean it is was fear, wasn't it?
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If you had time to reflect
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