Chris Mason
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I think Reform have said that were they to win a UK general election, they would offer Havering a referendum on leaving London.
There's other examples of it elsewhere.
Yes, and I think not exclusively a reform mindset.
An argument, a view articulated by some within Havering who might have come to their reform affiliations or maybe even have other affiliations.
You see occasionally in other places, there's been an argument in a part of West Yorkshire about whether Ilkley in West Yorkshire should be part of Bradford.
So these things do occasionally happen where you might have a community that doesn't really regard itself as having an affinity, a political affinity with the bigger entity to which it's been sort of glued politically.
Now, hang on a minute.
I think I do, because did he not?
He either studied in or was born in.
He has a connection to Vienna, doesn't he?
So I'm getting at least half a point for that.
Yeah, it's always tricky, I think, particularly on days like this where I'm reminded sitting here at Westminster of the kind of multi-nation state that the UK is.
You know, what is the standout headline from these elections?
Well, it clearly depends on where you are in the UK.
But if you're stepping back and trying to
And if you like, pick the thing that most stands out, then for me, partly because it came quite late in the day and that kind of drives the news value.