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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I'm hearing some of your colleagues shout at the radio at this point.
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He says he's meant to enable policy.
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You were labelled in one profile in the Guardian, the Hermanator, because the view was you block things.
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You get in the way, you're always going, oh, you know, here he comes with his legal advice telling us what we can't do again.
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Let's turn to a couple of the big decisions you've had to make in recent weeks and months before we talk about your friend who's fighting for his political life and what you think he can do to try and save that political life.
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Iran, you must have known when you took this job that possibly the most difficult decision you would be asked to give is something around peace and war.
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That, after all, is what stuck your predecessor, Peter Goldsmith, advising Tony Blair about war in Iraq, made him a public figure, made him very controversial.
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Were you ever in any doubt that you could give permission to the US to use bases on British soil to attack targets in Iran?
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There are two
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I hear what you say about not being able to reveal the advice and you're not the first to say it.
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It has to be said by people holding the job that you hold.
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There is a suspicion around there was an Iraq and there is over Iran that really what happens is attorneys are told by the politician what they want to hear.
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Be awfully helpful if you found this and then we could not have a row with the United States.
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We'd hide behind the law.
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Can you reassure people that this wasn't a legal advice driven by politics?
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Now, the other big issue you've had to deal with where you can speak publicly about it is the power you have to refer to the court of appeal if there is a feeling that a sentence has been too lenient.
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And you've done that recently, haven't you?
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In the case of three boys found guilty of raping two girls, laughing, filming it, sharing it, and yet getting no custodial sentence.
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