Chris Mason

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5,320 appearances 50 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

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

And to grumble and all the rest of it. matched

And there are complaints procedures, whether it's with a local authority or whoever it might be, a private sector entity as as well. matched

And a question about, there's a question, isn't there, for a newscaster to pose about whether that has been a broadly welcome development in ensuring that institutions, whatever they are, can be more properly scrutinized, or whether it's gone too far. matched

And the extent to which it can gum up institutions when a million and one complaints come and you're trying to pick the uh as some might see it, the legitimate ones from the uh illegitimate ones. matched

In the politics of the argument he's making, you know, as you got a sense of there, he thinks there's this sort of ecosystem that has grown up around the big two Westminster Party, La Labour and the Conservatives, over the last matched

you know, best part of a century, um, where he feels, but he he says it extends beyond party politics, although he didn't want to name any other institutions, that there is a collective sense of fright about the prospect of a reform government and therefore a collective desire uh for people to sort of chip away at them, throw stones at them, leak stuff about them, um, etc., etc. matched

Now I suggested to him, you know, is this it's a bit of a conspiracy theory. matched

Theory, a suggestion that they're all colluding, you know, they're all working together. matched

Is this not really sort of what scrutiny looks like when you are a prospective party of uh government? matched

Um, and you know, he makes this argument about this wider uh this wider ecosystem. matched

You know, I mean some people will sympathise uh with that argument, others I think will raise an eyebrow. matched

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I found my mind leaping to is matched

If that ecosystem, as he sees it, is as profound and intertwined as he claims it is, how credible is it that as an incoming reform government they could achieve lots of things very quickly, which is what they're promising to do? matched

Um if they're managing to be stymied now as they see it, would that not happen were they to be in government? matched

You know, is it not the nature of an advanced democracy that you have all sorts of checks and balances? matched

Now you can have an matched

argument about whether they have gone uh too far. matched

Now, his counter argument is that if you win a big majority with a big mandate and clear uh promises, then those obstacles would would you know would dissolve, would disappear. matched

But uh yeah, so I think it was an interesting an interesting diagnosis worth um sort of serious reflection. matched

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