Chris Gray
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586 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Chris Gray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What that was, was the thing that they were also keen to point to when the documents did eventually drop, which was the handwritten letter.
from Lord Mandelson to David Lammy, the then Foreign Secretary, which was basically tilting for the job.
This was before the process of finding a new ambassador.
It was the handwritten letter, which signed off, worse the effect of it, I don't have the verbatim quote in front of me, but you won't regret it if you give him the job.
And it is literally a splash of colour in what is otherwise black and white sort of typed text because it is a handwritten, with a blue pen, I think, it's a handwritten pitch for the job.
Now, you know, it's colour because, you know, people can pitch for jobs and he was clearly keen on the job because he wanted the job and he got the job.
So in that sense, there's no kind of revelation.
But it was interesting that they were seeking to point to that.
And as Joe says, I think because there's an element of...
I mean, I was always up for people being sort of vaguely helpful when big documents drop, but they will do that for their own reason.
And their own reason is to point towards things that they'd quite like there to be a focus on.
But also in this context, as Joe says, to manage the news of this, because obviously with documents of this scale, from their perspective, oh my goodness, you know, it's Monday, fine.
But, you know, there's going to be people finding stuff on page 493 of volume two.
a week on Wednesday or whatever.
And that's kind of inevitable, but they would obviously in time rather talk about anything else.
Did you see this?
So he clearly thought this was all a bit bonkers and had taken up far too much time.
And it does make you think,
Oh, he was frustrated by that.
Right.
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