Chris Gray
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586 appearances
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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 I think I suspect, and I don't know this now, but I suspect there will be a sort of slight period now of calmer, calmer kind of attitudes from within the Labour Party,
While that by-election process unfolds, the by-election itself will obviously be hugely contested and lots of attention on it.
You wonder then after that, and I think you're starting to get a sense of this from quite senior people in the Labour Party already, how much there is a sort of growing call for some sort of, rather than a bruising open contest, some sort of agreed vote.
So Margaret Hodge, for example, who is a Labour peer, been around a long time, she was suggesting that there should be a sort of agreed timetable and a coronation, to use her word.
Lucy Powell, who is the deputy leader of the Labour Party, we understand she's going to be talking at a union, Fibregas union conference.
saying something very similar, talking about the need for Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting, Andy Burnham to all work together.
You know, I just sort of wonder if that's going to become a growing voice in this conversation.
And it won't be everybody, because obviously the prime minister at this stage has made clear that he's going nowhere and he thinks he was elected to govern.
So I think there's a lot of question about how the prime minister now responds to what might be, might be,
Yeah, and it's too early to say whether that's going to be the case now because it depends what West Streeting decides to do.
Andy Burnham's made his attention abundantly clear at this point.
It depends what West Streeting decides to do.
It then depends what the Prime Minister decides to do.
And certainly the message from the Prime Minister is we want to govern.
Obviously, what we have seen over the course of the last few days makes it harder to govern because he's had this vocal opposition from 89 of his own Labour MPs.
He hasn't done an interview for days.
His Cabinet have come out.
We've heard from Bridget Phillips in the Education Secretary on Thursday, Pat McFadden in the Cabinet, giving their support to the Prime Minister, saying we want to get on with the job.
But in reality, when you've had that...
public questioning of your authority and leadership from within your own party, the very act of governing becomes harder.
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