Chris Gray
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586 appearances
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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 also if it's transformational to our armed forces, or is it just more of the same stuff we've already got?
And on top of that, and absolutely all of the detail is key here, and detail we don't yet have because obviously this thing has not yet been published, is an asymmetry, and this often happens when you get a cabinet resignation, an asymmetry in the timeline of things coming into the public domain.
In other words, a departing minister will leave with a critique and a sketching out of the numbers as they present them, etc., etc.,
Speaking to other folks still in government tonight around all of this, as I say, including some who do feel, as is often the case in these situations, you know, wounded by what has happened.
They're also limited in what they are able to say publicly in response because...
because this document is still not out there.
And of course, given the nature of what has just happened, how much of it that may have only been, well, was in theory, as far as Downing Street saw it, only days away from seeing the light of day.
You know, how long is it until it does, given what we've just seen?
Yeah, the departing minister always gets a sort of moment in the sun.
But I suppose we got a hint about what the government wants to say publicly about this, because Chris, we then got Keir Starmer's response to John Healey's letter.
We did.
So I'm now jumping to another letter before I then jump back to John Healy's original letter.
So this is like an epistolary novel.
And a test for how quick it takes your laptop to open a PDF file.
I've just opened the Prime Minister's letter that we got at about 20 past six, I think, on Thursday evening.
By the standard of these things, you become something, doing the job that I do, you become something of a scholar of the returns of letters when ministers depart.
And by the standards of these things, it's quite perfunctory.
It's not oozing in warmth.
It doesn't end with, and I look forward to your long career in politics and maybe you coming back.
No, which sometimes these things do, or sometimes they're all handwritten or whatever.
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