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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And it is Chris at Westminster.
And it's Alex in the Newscast studio.
No, I'd say that's about right.
And it's also one of those days where what happened...
First thing this morning, which was to do with Angela Rayner, feels like it happened 17 years ago by this time tonight, because so much has moved subsequently.
Yeah, they did.
They absolutely did.
They took seat after seat after seat off Labour in Wigan and Makerfield sits under Wigan Borough Council, even though it's not Wigan itself.
And not only that, but if you look across that whole area, so just down the road, St Helens, Reform again, took seats, took seats, Labour lost seats, lost seats.
And Nigel Farage has already come out and said that they're going to throw everything at this by-election.
And of course, the Green Party are very likely to stand in this by-election as well, who are nibbling away at Labour's support from the other direction.
So the backdrop to it is difficult.
And a majority of just under 5,400 in normal terms would be an OK majority.
But this is not normal times and this will not be a normal by-election.
The only caveat would say to all of that, so it is a bit of a test for Andy Burnham as to whether he can win this seat.
And as Joe says, if he wins it, he can say, I'm the guy that can beat reform.
If he doesn't win it, quite the opposite.
The thing about by-elections, though, is we are absolutely right to look at the results from the local authority elections last week.
And because they show that reforms had a real growth of popularity in that area.
and Labour support has fallen back.
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