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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What was your reaction when you first heard about that case?
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a process, but at a human level, did you have the reaction that so many people had, which is, what on earth has been
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The question I think they were asking themselves and many other young women, girls are asking themselves is, what's the point of putting yourself through the trauma of going through the criminal justice system if your attacker doesn't get a custodial sentence?
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Are you worried more broadly, though, that rape still isn't taken seriously enough by some in the criminal justice system?
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There's almost occasionally a sort of boys will be boys view of it.
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Absolutely.
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Underlying that case and underlying a lot of the criticism that's heard of lawyers and the law is a simple question.
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It's possibly the most powerful question in politics.
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Whose side are you on?
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And the perception there is, at least among some,
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that lawyers are not on their side.
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They're not on ordinary people's side.
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And you'll be all too aware that that's particularly the case when it comes to the small boats and migrants coming across it.
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And their fear is, and I'm going to put it directly, that lawyers like you and lawyers like Keir Starmer are more interested in the human rights of a guy who's paid thousands of pounds to a criminal and not much for the ordinary taxpayer over here.
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think
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you're being effective, just seeing
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coming over.
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That's illegal migration.
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Yeah,
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Can you let me explain why?
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