Chris Mason

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

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

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

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