Chris Mason

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4,846 appearances 48 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Sep

Chris Mason’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Newscast · How Damaging Is Reform's Donations Row? · 5 Sep 2026 podcast

Reforms lead after lead after lead for uh umpteen opinion polls for umpteen months. matched

Fifteen months. matched

Uh yeah, yeah, has has it has stopped happening. matched

Maybe we've been topping some polls. matched

Th equally there's been other some others recently with reform uh reform at the uh at the top. matched

On the professionalization point, um matched

I speak to a lot of people in Reform who are obsessed about trying to get that right because they know how limiting a factor it could be if they don't at every level. matched

Not just stopping things like the stuff we've seen in the last few days, but the building up of their ground operation, the building up of local parties, uh compliance, that does overlap with this sort of stuff. matched

Marketing, social media, etc. matched

So Treasury, they've got a new treasurer uh recently. matched

Um so they have been doing a lot of that. matched

But then there's the cultural thing, isn't there? matched

I was talking to someone this morning who was saying, look, a big part of Nigel Farage's political appeal going back 20 years is that sense of him being a cavalier, that sense of him getting out there and saying stuff other people won't say, campaigning in a way other people won't campaign. matched

Yeah, that sense of matched

But this person was saying, you need round heads as well. matched

You need people who are who are in the back office saying, hang on a minute, hang on, are you sure? matched

No, no, are you really sure? matched

Uh now they say they've started. matched

I think that's an additional reason why this is matched

they've found this so wounding because however much of that they've done, a combination of personnel, culture, ethos, call it what you want, this this has this has been really damaging for them. matched

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