Patrick Wintour
speaker
492 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Patrick Wintour’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's been around for a long time.
You remember he was a special adviser in the Treasury under Gordon Brown.
So he
He knows the ins and outs of Whitehall.
He was, whatever you may have thought of his policies, an effective climate change minister.
from people who are outside Whitehall, but maybe in sort of Gulf states, who say they've been impressed by the speed with which decisions are being made now in the Foreign Office.
And I think there's a kind of different relationship between the Foreign Office and Number 10 than there was under Keir Starmer.
I think Keir Starmer sort of, in fact, I know this from contacts that...
Well, he almost got to the point he didn't really know what the Foreign Office was for,
to do with Africa, because he did all the foreign policy work.
So he did Ukraine and he did the relations with Trump and Israel.
So...
And I think that now I think there's going to be a different relationship because I think Ed Miliband's a very strong foreign secretary.
No, I think if you look at the way in which Israel reacted to other countries that have taken similar measures, this is in line with that.
I think the bigger allegation that was being made would be an end of intelligence cooperation between Israel and Israel.
the UK and obviously a world in which is quite murky and I can't vouch for it forever.
But from what Ed Miliband was saying, and it seemed based on conversations, that is the intelligence cooperation is going to continue
neither side want to get mired in a kind of political conflict, particularly ahead of the election.
So I think the reaction of the Israeli government is probably on the level that was foreseen.
Sure no I mean any minute bomb that has been ticking will explode um but that before the announcement there was murky suggestions that the Falkland Islands would be dragged into this in some way
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