Peter Walker
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987 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Peter Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He packed quite a lot into it.
I think it was interesting.
The first thing he said was he said the proudest moment of his life was walking down Number 10, walking towards Number 10 only two years earlier.
And I think that was the kind of subtext he wanted to get across.
You know, you lot are getting rid of me only two years after we won this massive general election win.
And that's very much the feeling that he and his allies still feel very keenly that they think that Labour MPs and particularly Burnham's team have acted quite hastily.
But then he went on to basically say, look, you know, I accept that it's not just what I've done.
It's do my MPs have confidence for me to lead them into the next general election?
And the answer very much was no.
And he said,
Again, stated the point that whatever he wanted to do, we thought the country's best interests were the most important thing.
And I think that was crucial too, because there was a world in which he could have clung on.
He could have eked it out another few months with a whole series of rolling cabinet resignations, you know, the kind of Boris Johnson way.
But that's quite damaging for the party.
That's quite damaging for the country.
And he spent the weekend at Chequers with Victoria and probably one or two other very, very close people to him.
Working out what to do.
And, you know, we knew that by Saturday the decision has been made.
The text of the speech was being drafted by Saturday.
think they'd just been reading the media.
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