Stephen Pound
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157 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 19 Jun
Stephen Pound’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It would be lethal, not just for the economy, but I think for our position in the world and the way we're finally working with our European partners, the European brothers and sisters, including in Dublin particularly.
I have to say, your metaphors are causing a certain amount of brain fog with me.
No, it's a good.
Yeah, I think in each one of those cases, I can discuss each one of them individually.
And honestly, I just don't see any one of those people stepping up to the plate at the present time in terms of national negotiations.
Look what Keir's been doing, not just with the European Union, but with the European political groupings.
The credibility that he has with people like Mark Carney in Canada, who is becoming an increasingly important figure.
His relationship with the Taoiseach, the relationship he has with other leading European parliamentarians and people who actually want to have some stability and, please God, some peace in the world.
I don't think any of those could actually replicate that gravitas and that strength and those contacts that he has at the present time.
I think he can.
Let me just say the reality of the situation.
The Reform UK won about 10 council seats.
They've made a dog's breakfast of every one of them.
There's not a single one of the councils that Reform run which is actually operating successfully.
Not one of them has actually cut council taxes, they all promised.
Not one of them has got rid of what they felt was a sort of infestation of wokeism, which didn't actually exist.
It was all very well as a soundbite on the doorstep, but you look under the bonnet and there's nothing there.
So I think just as the gloss is coming off the Green, it's very much indeed, and you and Henry rightly identified some of the problems, and certainly I'm seeing a lot of people who've got buyer's remorse about their support for the Greens.
There's more and more stuff about some of the dregs of the worst aspects of Corbynism washed up in the Green Party.
I think it was Dick Tuck's famous comment, which I can't repeat in there entirely, but he said, you know, the people have spoken, the
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