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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Would it have been different?
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West Streeting says it would have been.
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He says that if women such as Jess Phillips
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who eventually resigned as a minister.
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But had got a lifetime working with
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young women and girls who'd been abused.
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If she had been in that room when the decision was taken, Mandelson, he says, would never have been sent to Washington.
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Looking back, has he got a point?
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I think where Streeting's view wasn't about Jess Phillips as a person.
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What she's saying is almost no woman.
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Could have sat in a room and said, Look, we know he's close to a convicted sex offender, but on the other hand, he's very good at trade.
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They would have said, Forget it.
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But there was a core problem, wasn't there, which is you were acting as chief advisor to the Prime Minister on this.
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And you were very close to Peter Mandelson.
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I mean you had dinners together, you sent texts to each other, he gave you advice.
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He once boasted to me how he'd sat at a lunch table with one of his famous yellow pads of paper with lines recommending what your strategy should be, who should be appointed and who shouldn't.
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Now he might not have always taken the advice, but you were very close in later years.
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You see the reason I ask you about Westreating's conclusion
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Is that something that was said about the Downing Street you worked in was that it was a boys club.
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Lucy Powell said it now, deputy leader of the Labour Party.
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