Chris Mason
speaker
4,846 appearances
48 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Chris Mason’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What about the culture around Nigel Farage that perhaps uh allows that to happen, whether he knew much about it or not?
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For more than a year.
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I know.
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it's ins sorry Joe, picking up on that, it's actually interesting, you know, you see out out of shot for p newscasters watching that conversation with Jeremy Call and Nagel Farage.
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The
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A lot of people not all, but quite a lot of the reformer aficionados who have
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you know, are sufficiently plugged in and signed up that they've handed over their money to come to the conference, do subscribe to the idea that an element of, my words not always theirs, but a sense of the world's out to get it.
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You know, that sense of uh uh collusion, it was a phrase uh word that Nigel Farrell used to me uh the other day when I was talking to him.
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That perception of a collusion when when there's a sense that they feel they get a disproportionate amount of scrutiny.
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Layer on top of that the observation that he made to you today about the impact on his family and how keenly he feels that.
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And then the critique that we heard over the summer from Tim Montgomery, the founder of Conservative Home, who defected to reform a couple of years ago, about a sense of a crabby Nigel Farage is perhaps not as widely appealing a one as a more upbeaten, smiley Nigel Farage, which is broadly a critique by the way, I think that Nigel Farage accepts.
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Yeah, that was fascinating.
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And and you get to you get to the essence of where they are now.
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When he was in the Conservative folder, uh it had a range that was beyond the granted a Treasury spokesman has perhaps wider parameters than a shadow justice secretary, but it did range a little beyond uh a mere fiscal analysis, you might say.
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I love it.
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Hmm.
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Yeah, and it's and it's massively expensive.
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What is it?
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17, 18 billion pounds.
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And he says, you know, he says governing is about choices and the choices would mean trims on benefits, although he's quite vague about precisely which ones, uh, and some net zero programs and reducing foreign aid just to uh emergency, disaster emergency uh relief.
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