Chris Mason

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

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Newscast · Keir Starmer Resigns (Again) · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

You can also make an argument as some are, um, that prime former prime ministers like Theresa May and like Edward Heath, I mean he matched

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It does put you in an awkward spot because people constantly want to know what you think of your successor. matched

Um then, you know, the the the there's lively arguments about whether the noble thing to do is to go or the noble thing to do is to stay. matched

But obviously it is the prerogative of any MP uh to decide uh whether they stay or leave between between elections. matched

Six uh uh uh uh uh well on the front speaking from the front bench. matched

he did speak he did speak, you might recall, back in that debate about Hillsborough from the backbenches. matched

Um in the very final days of Keir Starmer's time as Prime Minister, and he was a shadow minister between twenty ten and uh when he left Parliament to become the mayor of Greater Manchester. matched

But it is sixteen years since he stood at the government's dispatch box as a minister of the Crown and he returns to that same spot um matched

uh this week for the first for the s first time with a with a big session on Tuesday afternoon as we record this conversation and then with Prime Minister's questions, which effectively will be another forty minutes of of the same kind of stuff, facing questions on everything and anything from anyone and well, anyone in Parliament. matched

Um and it'll be fascinating. matched

It'll be fascinating about what he says, the tone that he strikes, the tone that his opponents strike. matched

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And and a sense that, you know, the sort of soft launch is over. matched

This is where the rubber hits the road. matched

This is where you get a real sense of the Burnham administration and how it looks and feels and conducts itself and the extent to which that is different or not from what went before, and how it wrestles with so many of the conundrums and trade-offs that contributed towards the downfall of. matched

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