Peter Walker
speaker
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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There was no signs.
Downing Street say they hadn't talked.
So I like to think that amongst his normal scrolling, he sometimes looks at the Guardian website and goes, oh, okay.
I get the sense that by the time he'd gone to check us, he kind of knew the game was up.
The preparations were there.
The writing was very, very clearly on the wall.
I mean, it was interesting that after the Mayfield by-election result, when Andy Burnham won by so much, the kind of metric that people in number 10 had kind of mentally set was, well, he does better than...
reform and restore Britain, you know, combined and he's done okay, but he ended up getting over 50% of the vote.
So that was a stomping win.
And Keir Starmer went straight out on Friday morning and did a housing related visit where he said, no, I'm going to fight on.
I'm going to keep going on.
Even then we doubted it.
But it was notable that I was working yesterday that as late as Sunday afternoon, the official number 10 line was, no, we refer you back to his Friday words.
He's still going to fight on.
Even though by that point we'd had a story saying he was stepping down on Monday.
On the very front of the website for about eight hours.
And normally, Downing Street Press team, you know, if you get even one word in a quote wrong, they're straight on the phone saying, no, no, you have to change that.
And we hadn't heard a peep from them.
So it was very, very obvious.
I mean, our sources were very good.
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