Chris Mason

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4,931 appearances 49 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

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

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Newscast · How Did Andy Burnham Do In His First PMQs? · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

That is uh perhaps necessary but who knows if it's sufficient is the is the coming question, isn't it? matched

Yeah, and what was interesting about it, it sounded I don't know, but it sounded like he was ad-libbing. matched

And that as soon as he'd said it, he thought, oh crikey. matched

I mean, that is simultaneously talking down to the um, you know, the relative I I I I must see who it is actually. matched

Who are the PPS defense actually? matched

But you know, uh a relatively uh j junior figure in the context of the government because it's the sort of lowest lowest rung of uh matched

Government sort of unpaid uh assistant to ministers. matched

It's Jane Kirkcomb from Cornwall. matched

Thank you. matched

Okay. matched

Uh but it and it's also a slight on the DEFRA secretary or the whole business of the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. matched

So um yeah, I I thought I thought it was quite a human moment because as I say outwardly it did look ad-libbed, and it and he did pretty much instantly having said it, and you could see it in the responses of some of his cabinet ministers actually. matched

And he did. matched

Actually, realise that um uh you know th there would be some who might find that a bit uh a bit close to home as a gibe. matched

But that you know, that's the that's the world of PMQs and public life, isn't it? matched

To what extent do you allow yourself to continue to be, if you like, an authentic adliving communicator versus the danger that you end up inadvertently putting noses out of joint by uh sort of not calibrating your language properly. matched

That's that's um classic dilemma if you like. matched

Yeah, it has. matched

And I and I think it's uh i it's a fascinating element of this kind of uh crunching of reality for the for the newish government. matched

You know, coming back, Parliament returning, it's autumn, there's the uh immanence of party conferences and going to the United Nations and bla you know, the budget, the ten year plan that he's promising in n in November. matched

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