Chris Mason
speaker
5,320 appearances
50 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Chris Mason’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Uh arguably, it to James Cleverley's credit, he was willing to think a little bit out loud there in answer to your question, because clearly he was thinking about it, wasn't yet in the state position where he wanted to say, I definitely want to run, because obviously it
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That point it was even further away than it currently is, and it's still quite a long way away because it's the spring of the year after next.
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Um, and uh it was even in his some of his kind of uh uh earth, he's thinking, uh need to sort of walk quite a tight line here.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Uh yeah, you you could you could see and and there's a logic to it from his perspective.
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He was in the London Assembly uh before.
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It is a big job.
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He's done big jobs in government and opposition, he he
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mess he m he missed out on the um conservative leadership a couple of years ago to Kembi Baden up.
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So yeah, it's gonna be um
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It'd be interesting.
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Yeah, and and I think the the way the Conservatives are sort of um uh making the arguments around what they've done here is that they brought in Melstrein and Priti Patel, two pretty big beasts from their time in uh government, at a time when the party was sort of on its uppers a bit after a crushing uh defeat, uh and they sort of knew their way around doing stuff and they could um you know, operate with far fewer staff than you're used to in government and and do the
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Sort of you know, the hard slog of being the principal party of opposition, which is turning up all the time in the House of Commons and responding to statements and all that kind of stuff, which the other parties do, but not to the same extent.
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Um and um but the in the view of Kemi Baidenock, they want to now refresh to a point where they're in a place where we're in a countdown to an election.
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Who knows how long it is away.
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They're talking up the idea that they
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um like to think that they're kind of ready.
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I hear privately from some others who say they're not remotely ready and I hear similar noises from some of the other opposition parties as as well.
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I think, you know, some of pretty people who've been in government come with the baggage of having been in government.
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Now lots of people, not least Cammy Badenock, were in the last Conservative government.
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