Chris Mason

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

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

And then in the last couple of days, uh matched

all of these noises and you know to some quite frightening ones around the cost of borrowing. matched

It's not a univers it's not a specific UK thing. matched

It impacts other countries uh as well. matched

But the realities are very real uh in the UK and what it's already a pretty constrained backdrop for the new Chancellor, uh John Healy, as they start, you know, running the numbers and working out, you know, what they've got to spend and w you know what matched

Westminster calls the headroom, the the the the the money the money that's uh the sort of gaps that are left um in in in terms of in terms of budgets. matched

So yeah, it's it's it's very, very real. matched

And again, it gets brings you back to um what could become a gap, and Andy Burnham wants to ensure there isn't much of a gap, but the gap between what we've had over the summer, the rhetoric, the promises on the by election campaign trail in Downing Street when he got the job it matched

et cetera, et cetera, with you know, with the reality. matched

That is a I mean it's fascinating now, isn't it? matched

I did hear that. matched

And uh yeah just just to mark your card. matched

All on car journey. matched

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, exactly. matched

Could have, yeah, yeah. matched

Um uh isn't that yeah, and and that that reminder that I I know we love exploring on newscasts and talking to newscasts about uh the the interlinked elements of so many of the conversations that we uh that we have, the sort of multi-layered nature of so so many of uh of these uh of these things, and that playing into uh the the the situation that John Healy, the Chancellor, faces, that the wider economy faces. matched

faces that the Prime Minister faces that we all face. matched

Yeah, it was. matched

So this was um I'd been hoping to catch up with him after the by election, uh the Clacton by election, which he won back in uh I say back in August. matched

It was only a couple of weeks ago. matched

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