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

Yeah, and and and this is where I think you get into that wider argument that that Nigel Farage was brushing by, uh, which is the wider sort of societal argument. matched

You know, you hear this in the context, don't you, for instance, over um judicial reviews or over the the arguments that have raised for, you know, approximately a million years about building another runway at Heathrow Airport, which is you know, at what point in an advanced democracy? matched

Do checks and balances go too far and effectively, accumulatively add up to just stopping anything from happening, even if each individual additional, you know, regulation or quango or whatever it might be was set up in good faith, often in response to a particular sort of thing that needed tightening up in the view of those who who set it up. matched

I was listening to Faislon Newscast. matched

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Performative. matched

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You know, uh uh versus legitimate. matched

Um uh but yeah, I mean it that does get to you know, it was a critique that we heard from Keir Starmer about pulling levers and nothing happening. matched

It's a critique we've heard we heard from Liz Truss. matched

Um so there is a there's a there's an undercurrent of an argument that is cross matched

Cross-party around all of that, different diagnoses about how far it goes or the solutions to it. matched

So yeah, you know, I think that's interesting. matched

Then there's the wider thing, Adam, with with Nigel Farage, and there's an overlap here between that argument about the sort of complainants society and then the sort of the tone of reform and the tone of Nigel Farage, because there was a critique over the summer from matched

Tim Montgomery, the um conservative home founder who defected to reform a few years ago, suggesting that that there was too much of an aggrieved tone from Nigel Farage. matched

And I put that to him. matched

And you know, he acknowledged he had been authentically angry about what he felt as the uh the encroachment on his family, um, and uh felt that was that was un that was unfair. matched

But did acknowledge um tacitly that being more matched

more public, uh the the more public Nigel Farage being the Nigel Farage uh that is that is less aggrieved and less angry might be politically savvy. matched

So I uh you know, I wouldn't do it the extent to which there is a sense that that tone changes in the uh in the autumn. matched

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