Tom Baldwin
speaker
210 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 28 Apr
Tom Baldwin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, everyone said it was a terrible error to admit that, you know, he didn't like the phrase island of strangers and he wouldn't have used it if he'd thought more about it.
And ever since then, he says, well, every time I make a mistake, you know, it's seen as weak, so I'm not going to admit any more mistakes.
So if at the start of this story about Peter Mandelson, when it became clear to everybody that his appointment shouldn't have happened, and I don't think Keir Starmer would have appointed him if he knew what we know now,
When it became clear to him then, I think he shouldn't have done this rather grudging mistake.
He should have owned it.
He should have said the world and his dog knows why we appointed Peter Madison.
You thought it was a great idea, John, because you wrote about it at the time.
Everybody knows it was a risk.
And just to own it and say, look, guess what?
People make mistakes in life.
Prime Ministers make mistakes in life.
And I learned from them.
And I don't think we'd be talking about it now if it had done that.
Yeah, I think it's mistakes on top of other mistakes.
And because you don't own the first mistake, you make further mistakes.
And that's what's going wrong in the specifics here.
I don't think he's become indecent.
I don't think that, you know, he... You know, we've just seen in the Iran war someone who very... You know, he's the grown-up on a political landscape inhabited by infants.
He's the person who says, we need evidence that they've got planned.
He's the person who says, I want this to be in accordance with international law and I'm not going to bend my principles for short-term political gain.
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