Chris Mason

Chris, hello.

Hi.

In theory, I think I was meant to be talking to you from Makerfield, where you were going to be doing a focus group.

I was due to be heading to Wigan and then on to Hindley, I think.

Of course, because Makerfield is not a place.

It's the name of the constituency.

Yeah, so I think it was Hindley we were going to be heading to, a community in the constituency, to record with the group More In Common, a focus group.

I was just going to sit in the corner of the room and watch it.

You weren't going to participate.

I was not.

No, but it's certainly not.

But I wasn't going to ask questions either.

I was going to sit there with a sort of, I even wondered whether I could even like be seen to be taking notes because would that sort of interfere somehow?

Because people might think I'm writing down something.

A two-way screen or one-way screen is what you need.

Exactly, exactly.

Anyway, newscaster Joe Pike is there instead.

Right.

And we will see and hear that focus group over the, on Friday night and then over the weekend.

But yes, my trip to the by-election, my third trip it would have been,