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

Um yeah, I look it it's a coincidence of the calendar, isn't it? matched

That a moment that we Or is it a coincidence? matched

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it's a it's a c it it it's it's it the nature of the calendar has meant that a moment that would normally happen within hours or days has taken six weeks to happen. matched

And then effectively what's also happened is that because you've had this sort of petering of announcements and the Prime Minister's been to Kyiv and the you know, he's been around the UK and all the bits and bobs that have gone on in the last six weeks, and I don't say that with any sort of um uh I don't mean that matched

In any sort of pejorative sense, but there's the collective output of the government over the last six weeks. matched

Normally, even when you have maybe a week or two weeks' recess in the context of a six-week window, there'd be plenty of moments where the rolling commentary of a government conducted not exclusively but significantly through the House of Commons would have created moments where either he, via Prime Minister's questions or other statements, or his cabinet, matched

Would have popped up and faced all sorts of questions about this, that, and the other. matched

And of course, that hasn't happened. matched

And so it happens in a concentrated sense. matched

this week. matched

And not least it's concentrated because Parliament hasn't been around for uh a a quite a wee while over the summer and it won't be again in a few weeks because there'll be another recess for the party conferences. matched

So there's a couple of weeks of Parliament. matched

Then there's another break whilst matched

The parties have their matched

shindigs in various places around the country. matched

And then things resume again uh in the autumn and you head towards the budget and then the Prime Minister's got his ten year strategy, his ten year plan that he's gonna launch probably in November. matched

I've heard the word decade attached to various Prime Ministers' plans in the last few years. matched

Not always lasted that long. matched

But but, you know, it's not unreasonable for a Prime Minister to think about that kind of matched

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